Flower for the Day Rattle Snake Master 7-25-18

Rattle snake master (Eryngium yuccifolium) has yucca shaped leaves and flowers in small balls. We are heading out west to where rattle snakes live but hopefully we will not have to use this plant.

Early American history reports that Indians chewed the root, blew it on their hands, and then handled rattlesnakes without concern. The root was more often used in bitter teas as an antidote venereal disease, snakebites, impotence, expelling worms, and to induce vomiting.