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Scientific name:

Thalictrum aquilegiifolium

Vernacular name:

Meadow-rue, French


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French Meadow-rue

Scientific name: Thalictrum aquilegiifolium L.

Diagnostic features
Scarcely rhizomatous.
Stems to 1m, erect, usually simple.
Leaves 2-4-ternate.
Infloresence compound.
Flowers in dense clusters, whitish to lilac or pink, with erect to patent stamens with filaments coloured and wider than anthers.

Chromosome number: (2n=14).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized.

Distribution
Grown in gardens and more or less naturalized in grassy places as a throwout in a few places in England, Man and Scotland; Europe.

This species is keyed out at Page 1498 of the Text Key.

Thalictrum aquilegiifolium
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