2068

Forb
Perennial
Dioecious or polygamous

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it in moist places, perhaps associated with circumneutral soils, moist to dry ultramafic outcrop barrens (over olivine), tidal freshwater marshes, rarely pineland seepages with calcareous substrate, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Ternately & pinnately decompound
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Whitish
Unisexual and bisexual
Radially symmetrical
4(-6) sepals
Petals absent
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 Eastern United States p015

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Thalictrum macrostylum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thalictrum macrostylum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

GREATER THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 076-11-007:
Thalictrum macrostylum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

GREATER THAN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968)
Thalictrum subrotundum