'Tall Meadow rue' or 'Late Meadow Rue' or 'Muskrat Weed' or King-of-the-Meadow' (tha-LIK-trum: pew-BESS-ins) RANUNCULACEAE:
There are from 120 to 250 different species of Thalictrum in the world with 22 species in North America. It’s a complicated genus with some hybrids occurring and many of the species having diverse forms (even in the same populations), making ID by foliage a poor way to separate one species from another. This species has tall plants growing 4 to 8 feet tall with clusters of white stamens in late spring early summer. Best in moist ground in full sun or part shade in moisture retentive woodland soils.
Zones 3-8. Native from Eastern USA and Canada, covering about the first 1/4 of those countries. This species blends into T. dasycarpum - which covers the next 2/4 of those countries, with some over lap in distribution North and southeast of the Great Lakes..
40 seeds.
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