Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Thalictrum clavatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Mountain Meadow-rue from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thalictrum clavatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-11-002:
Thalictrum clavatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
COMMON NAME:
Mountain Meadowrue, Lady-rue
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_thcl_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0504t_25
April Pickens County SC
Table Rock State Park
Leaflets kidney-shaped or oval, broader toward tip, 4-7 lobed, 1-1.5" wide, per Wildflowers in the Field and Forest.
COMPARE
leaves that resemble Thalictrum
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmtclavatum_cane1
April Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm120506_428
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm120506_430
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm120506_538
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
Filaments of stamens are white & dilated, suggesting club-shaped petals, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120506_542
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
The southern mountains' only Thalictrum w perfect [bisexual] flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120517_910
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm120517_916
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm140517_836
May Transylvania County NC
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JK Marlow jkm140517_838b
May Transylvania County NC
Filaments spreading in all directions(unlike T. dioicum's strongly drooping filiform filaments), per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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JK Marlow jkm140627_496
June Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
Achene concave or straight on the upper surface, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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JK Marlow jkm140627_499
June Transylvania County NC
Foothills Trail
Achene scimitar-shaped. Inflorescence branches stiff & diverge at acute angles, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
fruits that are an aggregate of achenes
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JK Marlow jkm220605_8260
June Greenville County SC
Chandler Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm180821_3928
August Jackson County NC
Whiteside Mountain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Thalictrum clavatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thalictrum clavatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-11-002:
Thalictrum clavatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
1495
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Mountains, rare in Piedmont, endemic to the Southern Appalachians
Look for it in seepages, moist forests, spray cliffs at waterfalls, brookbanks, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Ternately compound, with 2+ levels of compoundness
Basal & mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White (filaments)
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
Petals absent
Numerous petaloid stamens
Superior ovary
Inflorescence paniculate
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Aggregate of achenes
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p215
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p015
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest p306
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p043
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p064
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p450
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p051