Chelone glabra

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white turtlehead
Flowers
Flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Chelone
Species: C. glabra
Binomial name
Chelone glabra

Chelone glabra (white turtlehead) is a plant in the family Plantaginaceae (the plantain family).

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Chelone glabra is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves, on stout, upright stems. The flowers are white, borne in late summer and early fall. It can be used as a method of birth control, as used by Abenaki people.

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