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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Ranunculaceae
Thalictrum dasycarpum Fisch. & Avé-Lall.
purple meadow-rue, tall meadow-rue
Thalictrum: from thaliktron, a name used to describe a plant with divided leaves, and a name given to the genus by Dioscorides, the Greek physician and pharmacologist who wrote the Materia Medica, which remained the leading pharmacological text for 16 centuries
dasycarpum: dasys for "hairy," Latin for "hairy-carpelled" which is the seed bearing organ of a plant
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 3'-5' tall forb |
| Flower: | green to white, 4-5-parted, petal-like sepals falling early, fringe-like filaments remain; inflorescence a 10" large, pointed, conical, branched cluster; blooms June-July |
| Fruit: | dry seed |
| Leaf: | Distinctly hairy beneath but not glandular, 3-5 times 3-parted, leaflets 1-2 1/2 times as long as wide, mostly 3-lobed, rarely with more teeth; stem leaves stalkless |
| Habitat: | full to partial sun; moderate moisture to wet; meadows, streambanks; in sandy, loamy soil |
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