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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Actaea pachypoda
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    RANUNCULALES
 FAMILY:   RANUNCULACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Actaea pachypoda
 AUTHORITY:  Ell.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    DOLL'S-EYES
    WHITE BANEBERRY
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: ACPA
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         MESIC
       THICKETS
     WETLAND
       SEEP & SPRING
         TYPICAL SEEP
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NORTHERN
       Northern Hardwoods
           Sugar Maple-Basswood
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       BOND            BOONE           BROWN
   BUREAU          CALHOUN         CARROLL         CASS            CHAMPAIGN
   CHRISTIAN       CLARK           COLES           COOK            CRAWFORD
   CUMBERLAND      DEKALB          DEWITT          DOUGLAS         DUPAGE
   EDGAR           EFFINGHAM       FAYETTE         FRANKLIN        GALLATIN
   GRUNDY          HANCOCK         HARDIN          HENDERSON       HENRY
   JACKSON         JERSEY          JO DAVIESS      JOHNSON         KANE
   KENDALL         LAKE            LASALLE         LAWRENCE        LEE
   LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY         MCLEAN          MACON
   MARSHALL        MASON           MENARD          MONROE          MORGAN
   MOULTRIE        OGLE            PEORIA          PIATT           PIKE
   POPE            PULASKI         PUTNAM          RANDOLPH        RICHLAND
   ST. CLAIR       SALINE          SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        SCOTT
   SHELBY          TAZEWELL        UNION           VERMILION       WABASH
   WILL            WILLIAMSON      WINNEBAGO       WOODFORD
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:    Compound  (trifoliate)
    LEAF MARGIN:   Dentate
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Ovate     Obovate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Raceme
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Berry
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      4         MONTH END-      5
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in ravines; bluff bases.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MAJOR DISPERSAL AGENTS:   BIRD     MAMMAL
 
     MAJOR POLLINATION AGENT:   INSECT   fly   beetle
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     EDIBLE:  Poisonous
 
     WILD HERBS:   Medicinal
 
 HUMAN FACTOR COMMENTS:
     Rhizomes have medicinal properties; berries are poisonous.
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
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.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 OTHER REFERENCES:
     Pellmyr, O. 1985. The pollination biology of Actaea pachypoda and
          A. rubra (including A. erythrocarpa) in northern Michigan
          and Finland. Torrey Botanical Club Bulletin 112:265-273.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Actaea pachypoda
 
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 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
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