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Chelone glabra L.
Engl.: white turtlehead, balmony, salt-rheum weed, shellflower, snakehead, turtlebloom, turtlehead.
Deu.: Kahle Schildblume, Kahler Schlangenkopf.
Bot. syn.: Chelone chlorantha Pennell & Wherry, Chelone montana (Raf.) Pennell & Wherry.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
Classic texts: Rafinesque 1828-1830.
Classic texts: Scudder's Materia Medica, 1898: Tonics.
Henriette's herbal blog: So all the books talk about white turtlehead ...
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Scudder 1870.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: Felter 1922.
Classic texts: Cook 1869.
Classic texts: Boericke 1901.
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