Plant/Fungus/No Idea What It Is

[Mars]

Any ideas what this is? I don't remember seeing it before. Just inside the treeline under water oaks and briars. You can see a cluster growing in the background of the picture.

 

[Mars]

I guess no one else knows either.

 

[GeorgeShu]

Just used Seek to identify.
said American Cancer-root, what ever that is….

 

[Mars]

Thanks! Thats it. https://cottagelife.com/outdoors/plant-id-cancer-root/

 

[NCHillbilly]

Squaw root is what it's always been called around here, and used to be in the books, but I guess that's not PC any more. Bears eat it when they first come out of hibernation in the spring.