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Botanical details
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Actaea
- Genus description
Actaea are rhizomatous herbaceous perennials with compound leaves and small creamy-white flowers in short, erect, simple or branched terminal racemes, followed either by poisonous red, black or white berries, or by star-shaped clustered brown follicles
- Name status
Correct
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