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Photographer: Kim Alan Chapman
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Family Ranunculaceae
Thalictrum venulosum Trel.
northern meadow-rue, veined 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
venulosum: veined
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-40" tall forb; stems mostly hairless |
| Flower: | pinkish to white, 4-5-parted, petal-like sepals falling early, fringe-like filaments remain; inflorescence a terminal, dense, narrow, many-flowered, vertical-branched cluster (panicle); blooms June-July |
| Fruit: | dry seed |
| Leaf: | long-stalked except mostly stalkless in the inflorescence, both basal and along the stem, 3-4 times 3-parted into leaflets to 3/4" wide with 3-5 round-toothed lobes |
| Habitat: | shores; in rocky, gravelly soil |
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