Apiaceae
Button eryngo
Eryngium yuccifolium
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Eryngium
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Common names
By language (5)
- Chinese
- 丝兰叶刺芹
- English
- Button eryngo, Button snake-root, Rattlesnake master
- Finnish
- Jukkapiikkiputki
- French
- Panicaut à feuilles de yucca, Panicaut a feuilles de yucca
- Swedish
- Skallerormsmartorn
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Crazytwoknobs, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Jennifer Bunner, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: chris whipple, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: lxpetrik, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
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Photo: Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.