Tall Meadow Rue, Thalictrum dasycarpum Fisch & Ave-Lall., Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Tall Meadow Rue	Thalictrum dasycarpum Fisch & Ave-Lall.	Buttercup (Ranunculaceae)	Upland	Early to Late Summer
Other names and notes	(Purple Meadow Rue) Taller than Alum Root which grows nearby in the Upland Garden, reaching from 3 to 5 feet, with leaflets 3 to 5 times 3-parted, mostly 3 lobed, up to 2-1/2 times as long as wide and are alternate on the stem. Leaves are hairy under and stem leaves are stalkless. The small 4 to 5-parted flowers are white to greenish with stamens that are club shaped. The sepals fall away early, no petals. Flowers occur in branched clusters, branching from the top of the stem.


The plant is in bloom mid-June to early July.

Notes: Tall Meadow Rue is indigenous to the Garden area. It was listed on Martha Crone's 1951 inventory of plants in the Garden at that time, and on later census'. This species is native to Minnesota, being found in all but a dozen counties, which exceptions are mostly in the western section of the state. Its' native range in the North American is the entire area except for the eastern coastal states and the southwestern coastal states.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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