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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Filipendula rubra
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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Read more about Queen-of-the-Prairie at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Filipendula rubra
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Filipendula rubra
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)
Filipendula rubra
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-12-001:
Filipendula rubra FAMILY Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Filipendula rubra
COMMON NAME:
Queen-of-the-Prairie
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_firu2_001_lvd
Terminal leaflet with 7-9 palmate lobes; lateral leaflets lobed and toothed, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Filipendula rubra
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Filipendula rubra
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Filipendula rubra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Filipendula rubra
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-12-001:
Filipendula rubra
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Filipendula rubra
570
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: fens, wet meadows, seeps, over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare
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LEAVES:
Pinnately compound; leaflets palmately lobed
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
Leaves have petioles.
Leaves are subtended by stipules.
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Strongly rhizomatous, forming irregular patches
FLOWER:
Summer
Pink to purplish
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals
Inflorescence an anthela, w lateral flowering branches exceeding the main axis
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants p175
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p234
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p376
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p073
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