Xanthorhiza Marshall

Yellowroot (en), Xanthorhize (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs , deciduous, from long, slender, yellow rhizomes. Leaves cauline, petiolate; cauline leaves alternate. Leaf blade 1-2-pinnately compound; leaflets lance-ovate to broadly ovate or rhombic, margins variously sharply cleft, incised, or serrate. Inflorescences axillary, many-flowered panicles, 5-21 cm; bracts scalelike, not forming involucre. Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric; sepals persistent in fruit, 5, dark brown-purple to greenish yellow, plane, lanceolate to oblanceolate, usually clawed, ca. 2.5-5 mm; petals 5, distinct, brown-purple, plane, peltate, 0.5-0.9 mm; nectary terminal, transversely oblong, 2-lobed; stamens 5 (or 10); filaments with base expanded; staminodes absent between stamens and pistils; pistils (2-)5-10, simple; ovules 2, basal ovule aborting; style present. Fruits follicles, aggregate, sessile, compressed, obliquely oblong or somewhat sickle-shaped, sides not veined; beak becoming abaxial, curved, 0.4-0.8 mm. Seeds reddish brown, ovoid, smooth. x =18.
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Sep 5, small, spreading; pet none, staminodia 5, clawed, the nectariferous part transversely oblong, 2-lobed; stamens 5–10; pistils mostly 5–10; style subulate; ovules 2; fr an obliquely oblong follicle, with a single distal seed (or 2 seeds); low shrub with yellow wood, bearing a crowded cluster of pinnately compound lvs and several simple racemes or raceme-like panicles of small, purple-brown fls. Monospecific.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Images

Xanthorhiza unspecified picture

Distribution

Xanthorhiza world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:33271-1
WFO ID wfo-4000040893
COL ID 88GZ
BDTFX ID 87476
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Xanthorhiza Zanthorhiza l'hér.

Lower taxons

Xanthorhiza simplicissima