White Snakeroot
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White Snakeroot

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202614 min
  • One speaker
  • Science

It’s a plant and it’s flowering right now all over most of our country. It’s The White Snakeroot. It’s pretty but stay away- it’s poisonous if ingested! OK Let’s Learn all about this wildflower that indirectly killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother! Reach out for questions, feedback and future episode suggestions: [email protected] Go to our new website- okletslearn.com Support the podcast and be named a producer of the show here at this Patreon link: www.patreon.com/okletslearn OK Let’s Learn Su...

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from the 1980s and no it's not something that you need to be afraid about but it

right now if you're in northern New Jersey like I am look out there in the

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Welcome to the OK Let's Learn podcast. This is a family-friendly podcast where we dive into books, stories, people, history, science, and tons of different people. My name is Kevin O'Keeffe, so today, okay, let's learn about white snake root. What? Yes, I'll say it again. White snake root. No, this is not a band

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from the 1980s and no it's not something that you need to be afraid about but it is poisonous but it's beautiful at the same time it's a plant it's blooming right now if you're in northern New Jersey like I am look out there in the woods in your yards it's a white blooming plant it was a weed throughout

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out the spring and all summer and now it's blooming all over the place and yes how about this horrible fact it was actually connected to the death of Abraham Lincoln's mother. So okay let's learn all about white snake root. So here's the thing as with so many of my episodes it's all about curiosity. Information, what you know, feeds more curiosity. And as I'm walking

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