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Scientific name:

Aruncus dioicus

Vernacular name:

Buck's-beard


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Buck's-beard

Scientific name: Aruncus dioicus (Walter) Fernald

Diagnostic features
Stems to 2m, erect.
Basal leaves to 1m, the leaflets ovate, sharply 2-serrate, glabrous or nearly so.
Inflorescence up to 50cm, much-branched.
Pedicels strongly recurved in fruit.
Follicles glabrous.

Chromosome number: (2n=18).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized;much planted in gardens, very persistent in woodland and by water, but ± never seeding.

Distribution
Scattered throughout England and Scotland, especially North; Europe.

This species is keyed out on Page 2251: Aruncus and other genera; Page 2809: Astilbe (Saxifragaceae) & Aruncus (Rosaceae); Page 3775: Ranunculaceae & Aruncus (Rosaceae) in the Text Key.

Aruncus dioicus (Buck's-beard)
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