Thalictrum coriaceum Small

Maid of the mist (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Thalictrum

Characteristics

Roots bright yellow, tuberous. Stems erect, coarse, 65-150 cm, glabrous. Leaves cauline; petioles of proximal leaves well developed, clasping stem, distal leaves sessile or nearly so. Leaf blade 1-4×-ternately compound; leaflets reniform or obovate to orbiculate, apically 3-9-lobed or toothed, 10-75 mm wide, lobe margins crenate, surfaces abaxially glabrous or glandular. Inflorescences panicles, pyramidal, loosely branched, many flowered. Flowers: sepals white to purplish, lanceolate-ovate, 1.5-5.5 mm; filaments maroon, 4-4.5 mm; anthers 2-5.5 mm, apiculate, subulate-tipped; stigma maroon. Achenes 3-15, erect, not reflexed, stipitate; stipe ± wing-angled, 0.7-2.5 mm; body obliquely ovoid to ellipsoid, not laterally compressed, 3-6.5 mm, strongly veined or ribbed, veins not anastomosing; beak 1.5-3 mm.
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Stems to 1 m, from a stout caudex; upper lvs sessile, the terminal lfl in each set of 3 commonly triangular-obovate, longer than wide, narrowed to the base; panicle very loosely and widely branched; filaments slender, colored; anthers 2.5–3.5 mm; achenes short-stipitate, turgid, ovoid, 2.5–4 mm long and half as wide, the upper side more convex than the lower; style persistent, usually deflexed; 2n=70, 140. Rich woods in and near the mts.; Md., Va., W.Va., Ky., Tenn., N.C., and Ga. Late May, June.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.65 - 1.5
Root system rhizome
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Environment

Light 4-6
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 1-2
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 15 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
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Distribution

Thalictrum coriaceum world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:250743-2
WFO ID wfo-0001129462
COL ID 5626B
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Thalictrum caulophylloides Thalictrum coriaceum Thalictrum steeleanum Thalictrum dioicum var. coriaceum Thalictrum dioicum var. stipitatum