BLACK COHOSH Actaea racemosa — the Woman's Root, Fairy Candle, Black Snakeroot Streams: The Wise Women & The Burned · The Ancient Apothecaries · The Forbidden Shelf Folk & old names: Black Snakeroot · Bugbane · Rattle-top · Rattleweed · Fairy Candle · Macrotys · Richweed · Cimicifuga racemosa (old botanical name) · "squawroot" (a colonial name, now recognized as a slur) This one is borrowed knowledge, and we're going to say so out loud. She's a Native woman's root — she walke