red rattle

noun — 4 senses

noun

Any of several plant species of the genus Pedicularis and others.

The common Red Rattle has sundry reddish hollow stalks, and sometimes green, rising from the root [...].1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 237:

Pedicularis flammea

Pedicularis palustris (marsh lousewort)

Odontites vernus (red bartsia)

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