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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Aruncus dioicus
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ROSALES
 FAMILY:   ROSACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Aruncus dioicus
 AUTHORITY:  (Walt.) Fern.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    GOAT'S-BEARD
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: ARDI8
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         MESIC
     PRIMARY
       BLUFF
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:
     Coastal Plain
        Cretaceous Hills
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       BROWN           CALHOUN         CARROLL
   CASS            CHRISTIAN       CLARK           COLES           CRAWFORD
   CUMBERLAND      DEWITT          EFFINGHAM       FAYETTE         FULTON
   GREENE          GRUNDY          HANCOCK         HARDIN          HENDERSON
   HENRY           JACKSON         JERSEY          JO DAVIESS      KNOX
   LASALLE         LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MACON           MACOUPIN
   MARION          MASON           MENARD          MONROE          MORGAN
   PEORIA          PIKE            POPE            PUTNAM          RANDOLPH
   RICHLAND        ST. CLAIR       SALINE          SANGAMON        SCHUYLER
   SCOTT           SHELBY          STARK           UNION           WABASH
   WASHINGTON      WHITESIDE       WHITESIDE       WILLIAMSON
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMY COMMENTS:
     This is including var. pubescens (Rydb.) Fern.
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Primary   Adventitious   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:    Compound  (pinnately)
    LEAF MARGIN:   Doubly Serrate
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Oblong   Ovate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Panicle  Raceme
    FLOWER MEROUS:  5
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Perigynous
    FRUIT:   Follicle
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Small flowers are in numerous racemes aggregated into a terminal panicle.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      5         MONTH END-      6
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Unisexual   -dioecious
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in rocky woods.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Jones, G. N.  1963.  Flora of Illinois.  Third ed.  American Midland Naturalist
     Monograph 7.  University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  401 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist.  1963.  Manual of vascular plants of north-
     eastern United States and adjacent Canada.  Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.,
     New York.  810 pp.
Fernald, M. L.  1950.  Gray's manual of botany.  8th ed.  American Book Co.,
     New York.  1632 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Aruncus dioicus
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015