stoneroot

English

Etymology

From stone +‎ root.

Noun

stoneroot (uncountable)

1. Collinsonia canadensis, a perennial medicinal herb in the mint family, with a very hard root.
   • 1867, Oliver Phelps Brown, “COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. Stoneroot.”, in The complete herbalist; or, The people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies:

     Stoneroot is under the dominion of the Moon. It is used with good effect in chronic catarrh of the bladder, (as are other plants mentioned elsewhere,) whites, and weak stomach.

   • 1907, Alice Henkel, American Root Drugs, page 58:

     Stoneroot is found in moist, shady woods from Maine to Wisconsin, south to Florida and Kansas.

   • 2000, Charles W. Fetrow, The Complete Guide To Herbal Medicines, page 525:

     Stoneroot comes from the rhizome (underground stem) and root of Collinsonia canadensis, a member of the Labiatae family. Native to North America, this plant grows wild from Massachusetts and Vermont west to Wisconsin and south to Florida and Arkansas.