TALL MEADOW-RUE 



land woods often dominating the roadway. Labrador 

 and Quebec to Florida, west to Ohio. 



Stem. — Five to six feet high, leafy, branching. 



Leaves. — Basal and stem leaves, compound in threes, 

 three to four times; leaflets oblong, obovate, or orbicular, 

 with three rounded, shallow lobes, the result of the many 

 divisions making a fern-like leaf. Stem leaves alternate. 



Spray of Tall Meadow-Rue. Thalictrum Polygamum 



Flowers. — White, polygamo-dioecious, borne in loose, 

 terminal panicles, making large fluffy clusters. 



Calyx. — Of four or five sepals, falling early. 



Stamens. — Numerous, white, threadlike, spreading in 

 feathery tufts. 



Pistil. — Ten to fourteen carpels in the fertile flowers, 

 each containing one seed. 



Tall Meadow-Rue is most attractive whether in 

 leaf or in flower. The leaves are so compounded as 



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