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Photographer: Robert R. Kowal
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Family Ranunculaceae
Thalictrum thalictroides (L.) A.J.Eames & B.Boivin
rue-anemone, wind-flower
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
thalictroides: like Greek plant name, Thalictrum
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 4"-8" tall, hairless forb with slender stems; roots a small cluster of tubers |
| Flower: | pink to white, 5-10-parted, 1/3"-1 1/4" wide, petal-like sepals; inflorescence a few-flowered, umbel-like cluster; blooms April-May |
| Fruit: | dry seed |
| Leaf: | basal leaves stalked, 2 times 3-parted with distinct, rounded leaflets, the lobes with teeth toward the tip  and several opposite or whorled leaves just below the inflorescence |
| Habitat: | dry to moist; woods, edges |
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