. The drug plants of Illinois . VIBURNUM OPULUS L., var. AMERICANUM (Mill.) Ait. Ameri- can cranberry bush, cramp bark tree, high-bush cranberry, wild guelder rose, red elder, squaw bush. Caprifolia- ceae.—An erect, moderately branched shrub 8 to 10 feet tall, with ascending, gray, smooth branches; leaves 3-lobed and maple-like, 2 to 4 inches long, opposite, coarsely and irregularly dentate; flowers snowy white, some as much as 1 inch wide, numerous in terminal and axillary, stalked clusters; fruit a red, translucent, round, sour drupe. The bark collected in the autumn. Rare in low woods in th
. The drug plants of Illinois . VIBURNUM OPULUS L., var. AMERICANUM (Mill.) Ait. Ameri- can cranberry bush, cramp bark tree, high-bush cranberry, wild guelder rose, red elder, squaw bush. Caprifolia- ceae.—An erect, moderately branched shrub 8 to 10 feet tall, with ascending, gray, smooth branches; leaves 3-lobed and maple-like, 2 to 4 inches long, opposite, coarsely and irregularly dentate; flowers snowy white, some as much as 1 inch wide, numerous in terminal and axillary, stalked clusters; fruit a red, translucent, round, sour drupe. The bark collected in the autumn. Rare in low woods in the northern third of the state. Contains principles similar to those of the following species. Used as a uterine seda- tive and hemostatic.
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