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Rue Anemone
Rue Anemone
Thalictrum thalictroides
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Perennial
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate forest
Range
Eastern North America
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

Rue Anemone is a delicate woodland wildflower with whorls of three-lobed leaflets and clusters of small white-to-pink blossoms nodding atop wiry stems. Unlike true anemones, its flowers have no petals at all — the colorful parts are petal-like sepals.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Thalictrum
Species
Thalictrum thalictroides