red rattle

English

Alternative forms

• redrattle

Noun

red rattle (plural red rattles)

1. Any of several plant species of the genus Pedicularis and others.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 237:

     The common Red Rattle has sundry reddish hollow stalks, and sometimes green, rising from the root [...].

   2. (marsh lousewort)

Synonyms

• lousewort

References

• “red rattle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• red rattle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Odontites vernus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• red rattle at USDA Plants database