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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Thalictrum amphibolum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thalictrum revolutum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Thalictrum amphibolum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Thalictrum revolutum

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)

Thalictrum revolutum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-11-005:

Thalictrum revolutum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Thalictrum revolutum

 

COMMON NAME:
Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue


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image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_thre_001_lvd

        

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120506_583

May    Oconee County    SC

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120506_585

May    Oconee County    SC

Foliage malodorous; the leaflets entire to 3-lobed and with revolute margins, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120506_587

May    Oconee County    SC

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120506_600

May    Oconee County    SC

Female flowers bur-like and greenish, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120506_639

May    Oconee County    SC

Male flowers have 4-5 light green sepals & drooping greenish-white stamens, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120506_646

May    Oconee County    SC

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120525_326

May    Oconee County    SC

Achenes often minutely glandular-hairy, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).


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image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120525_329

May    Oconee County    SC

Leaflet margins rolled backward (revolute), pale green or whitish under, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120525_342

May    Oconee County    SC

Leaves ternately decompound; leaflets usually with 3 lobes but sometimes none, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm120525_389

May    Oconee County    SC

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm220527_8148

May    Oconee County    SC

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm220527_8151

May    Oconee County    SC

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm220615_8575

May    Oconee County    SC

Leaflet undersurfaces, peduncles, and achenes with or without stipitate glands or papillae, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmtrevolutum_761b

May        

The filaments on the male flowers droop, like with T. dioicum, per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmtrevolutum_762b

May        

Flowers many, on elongate racemes or panicles, per Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006).

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmtrevolutum_763b

May        

Flowers drooping. Five sepals. Filaments white, longer than anthers, per Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006).

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm140614_910

June    Oconee County    SC

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm140614_915

June    Oconee County    SC

Normally stipitate-glandular or papillose, but can be glabrous, per Weakley's Flora (2023).

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm150912_025026b

September    Clay County    NC

Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District

image of Thalictrum amphibolum, Skunk Meadowrue, Waxy Meadowrue

JK Marlow    jkm151108_666

November    Oconee County    SC

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Thalictrum amphibolum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Thalictrum revolutum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Thalictrum amphibolum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Thalictrum revolutum

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Thalictrum revolutum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-11-005:
Thalictrum revolutum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Thalictrum revolutum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1498

Forb
Perennial
Dioecious

Habitat: Mesic to dry forests, woodlands, barrens, and prairies, over hornblende, greenstone, dolostone, and serpentinized olivine, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Ternately compound, with 2+ levels of compoundness
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White (filaments)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
Petals absent
Superior ovary
Unisexual

Inflorescence paniculate

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Aggregate of achenes

 

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