cimicifuga

See also: Cimicifuga

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

cimicifuga (plural cimicifugas)

1. Any member of the former genus Cimicifuga, now Actaea sect. Cimicifuga, of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh.
   • 2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     You can also have a long bloom season by including fall-flowering plants like chrysanthemums, anemones, cimicifugas, fall-blooming crocuses and false crocuses (colchicums).