Thalictrum debile Buckley

Southern meadow-rue (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Thalictrum

Characteristics

Roots brownish, fusiform-tuberous with dried ribs. Stems reclining, branched and flexible proximally, 10-40 cm, glabrous. Leaves: proximal cauline leaves petiolate, 1-3×-ternately compound; distal cauline leaves petiolate or sessile, 1-2×-ternately compound or simple. Leaf blade: leaflets ovate or obovate to reniform or orbiculate, apically shallowly to deeply 3-7-lobed, rarely undivided, 4-15 mm wide, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, panicles, elongate, few flowered. Flowers: sepals whitish, lanceolate to obovate, 1.5-2.7 mm; filaments colored, not white, 1.5-2 mm; anthers 1.7-2.5 mm, mucronate; stigma color unknown. Achenes 1-6, not reflexed, nearly sessile; stipe 0.1-0.3 mm; body oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, not compressed, 3-3.7 × 0.7-1.2 mm, glabrous, prominently 6-8-veined, veins not anastomosing; beak 1.3-2 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.4
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 4-6
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 1-2
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
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
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:714367-1
WFO ID wfo-0001129463
COL ID 5626T
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Thalictrum debile