Indiana laws for snake root

Is there a season for snake root ?

No

Is there a market for white snake root?

Would you be talking about Virginia Snakeroot? I can use all you can dig of it. I can pay at least 110 a pound for it and maybe more.;

Is this what you are talking about Don ?

Sorry image is sideways

I think that looks like Solomon`s seal.Hopefully Don will take a look.Don what time of year does Virginia snakeroot get the flower on at the bottom of the plant?

Snakeroot ?

that is not snake root but I think it might be wild yam, but not positive about it being yam but I know it isn't snake root or better yet, Virginia snake root. keep on trying.

The flowers that usually just about grow underground. I think the flower comes in june.

Is this virginia snakeroot?

One plant looks like snakeroot and that plant is the plant that is just left of and in front of the taller plant. Everything else does not look like snakeroot. The best way of telling virginia snakeroot is to dig the plant. Then the root will be kind of a hair root typ root and if you take your fingers and crush the root between your fingers, you should get a smell that will remind you of either camphor or turpentine.The root has a very distinctive smell to it.

In answer to your question, white snake root (Ageratina altissima) is a poisonous plant. See Wikipedia article on Ageratina altissima. In the past, it was used as a medicinal plant, but such use was and is ill-advised. You should not use it yourself or sell it to anyone.

I know white snakeroot is poisonous. But a small part of my property is covered with it. I was hoping there might be some value medicinally for it.

I think I read that Abe Lincoln's mother died from drinking the milk for cows that had fed on white snake root plants.

jim.....that looks like false solomans seal. regular solomans seal has the leaves lined up side by side......false is irregular

Gryhkl, you raise an interesting question when you ask if there is a market for white snake root for medicinal purposes. As you know, there are flourishing markets for bloodroot, mayapple, jimson weed, coca, opium, and many other poisonous plants whose isolates or derivatives long have been used as medicines. Intrigued by your question, I searched online for any such demand or use for white snake root, but could find none. So, for the present, we must assume that the researchers and pharmaceutical manufacturers of the world have found no use for any of white snake root's constituents. For this reason, it has no market.

But in the past, the Cherokees and many other tribes of the original and rightful inhabitants of this land, used this plant as a medicine, without any recorded ill effects. How they were able to take it safely, I do not know.