Thalictrum macrostylum Small & A.Heller

Piedmont meadow-rue (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Thalictrum

Characteristics

Stems erect to ± reclining, slender, 50-200 cm, glabrous. Leaves basal and cauline; basal and proximal cauline petiolate, distal cauline sessile; petioles and rachises glabrous, neither pubescent nor glandular. Leaf blade ternately and pinnately decompound; leaflets grayish green to brownish to bright green, nearly orbiculate to ovate or obovate, apically undivided or shallowly 2-3-lobed, 5-16(-22) × 3-18 mm, length 1-3.3 times width, leathery and prominently reticulate abaxially, or sometimes quite membranous, margins sometimes revolute, lobe margins entire; surfaces abaxially glabrous. Inflorescences racemes or panicles, elongate, few flowered; peduncles and pedicels neither pubescent nor glandular. Flowers either unisexual with staminate and pistillate on different plants, or bisexual and unisexual with staminate and bisexual on some plants, pistillate and bisexual on others; sepals 4(-6), greenish to white, nearly orbiculate, 1-2 mm; filaments white, filiform or sometimes clavate, 1.8-4 mm, rigid to flexible; anthers 0.5-1.2 mm. Achenes numerous, slightly stipitate; stipe 0.3-0.7 mm; body ovoid, 3-4.5 mm, prominently veined, glabrous; beak 0.7-1.7 mm. 2 n = 56.
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Stem slender, ca 1(–1.5) m; lfls firm and conspicuously reticulate-veiny beneath, narrowly revolute, ovate to oblong or obovate, entire or some of them with 2 or 3 lobes, glabrous, 5–15 mm; panicle large, very loosely branched; sep 1–2 mm; filaments slightly dilated, narrower than the anther; anthers 0.7–1.2 mm; stigma 0.6–1.7 mm; achene 3 mm, with low, inconspicuous ribs. Rich woods and meadows; s. Va. to S.C., w. to Ala. and Miss. June.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 2.0
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Flower color
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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 macrostylum world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:250797-2
WFO ID wfo-0001129467
COL ID 562BY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Thalictrum subrotundum Thalictrum macrostylum Thalictrum subrotundatum Thalictrum polygamum var. macrostylum