SS ~ ayaees 
1. T. grandis Nutt. Bazeo-Bacbanes+— Stems 50-60 cm, tall or more, from 4 
/2.Trautvetteria F. & M. False Bugbane.. 
Tall perennial herbs with horizontal rootstocks. Leaves palmately pest} 
lobed, chiefly basal, the cauline alternate. Flowers numerous in terminal”i4 
corymbs. Sepals 5-5, caducous. Petals wanting. Stamens numerous, forming jy 
the conspicuous part of the flower. Pistils numerous. Fruit a globose § a 
cluster of lightly inflated achenes. 
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short rootstocks, glabrous; basal leaves reniform in outline, 15-50 cme 
proad or more, palmately 6-9 lobed to the middle, the lobes subequal, cuneate 
acute and irregularly toothed above, the teeth slender, lightly acuminate, KS 
lower surface sparsely villous or glabrate, petioles 10-30 cmy long or more, 4 
the cauline 1 or 2, similar but smaller, often divided into 3 or more segmeny 
sessile; corymb 5-15 cme broad, pubescent in % 
the upper parts; sepals rotund-oval to obovate, 5-6 mm long; stamens white, 4 
6-7 mae long, spatulate, the anthers tiny; achenes 8-15 in a single flower, ; 
[ime Long, mem, each with a dorsal and ventral and 4 lateral veins, 
tipped by the short recurving style; seeds obovate, smooth, 1 mm. long. 
Common throughout our region,mostly pelow 4000 feet, in moist shaded 
stream bottoms; grazed by sheep in early spring and summer. 
