squawroot n tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally Usage(s) squawroot, mouse-ear hawkweed, rattlesnake weed, coltsfoot, tickseed sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, sneezeweed, swollen bladderwort, clammy ground cherry,. Synonym(s) blue cohosh blueberry root papooseroot papoose root squaw root Caulophyllum thalictrioides Caulophyllum thalictroides