Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (11/30/12):
Enemion biternatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about False Rue-anemone from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Enemion biternatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-07-001:
Isopyrum biternatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
COMMON NAME:
False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_isbi2_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_e_biternatum_3784
February McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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Keith Bradley kab_e_biternatum_3895
February McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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Jerry Bright jeb_031508_023
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
This has 5 petaloid sepals, whereas Anemonella thalictroides has 5-10, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
Rue-anemone and False Rue-anemone
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JK Marlow jkm120326_006
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm120326_994
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_enemion_biternatum_5
March
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_enemion_biternatum_6
March
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JK Marlow jkm070407_105
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Fruit is a cluster of four pod-like follicles, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
COMPARE
fruits that are an aggregate of follicles
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JK Marlow jkm110416_821
April Etowah County AL
Its leaflets are more deeply lobed than those of Thalictrum thalictroides, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm110416_832
April Etowah County AL
Its multi-tiered leaves distinguish it from Thalictrum thalictroides, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
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JK Marlow jkm180408_241
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (11/30/12):
Enemion biternatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Enemion biternatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-07-001:
Isopyrum biternatum
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
766
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas
Habitat: Rich forests, either on natural levees with very nutrient rich sediments or on slopes with underlying mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
White
5 sepals
Petals absent
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring
Aggregate of follicles
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p133
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p125
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p178
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p234
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p156
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p015
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p038
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p059
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p047