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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Colicroot \Col"ic*root`\, n.
A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the
leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in
a long spike ({Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called
sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn
root.