Plant Family: Asteraceae (Aster)
Botanical Name: Eupatorium rugosum ‘Chocolate’
Alternative Name: Ageratina altissima ‘Chocolate’
Duration: Perennial
Blooms: September – to frost
Location in Garden: MacNider Entrance (2008 – present)
Medicinal Uses: Used by Native Americans to treat snakebites, thus the name. Settlers who drank milk from cows who ingested the plant often developed a disease called milk sickness.