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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Thalictrum thalictroides
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    RANUNCULALES
 FAMILY:   RANUNCULACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Thalictrum thalictroides
 AUTHORITY:  (L.) Eames & Boivin
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    RUE ANEMONE
 
 SYNONOMY:
     Anemonella thalictroides (L.) Spach
 
 PLANTS CODE: THTH2
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NORTHERN
       Northern Hardwoods
           Sugar Maple-Basswood
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       BOONE           BROWN           CALHOUN
   CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       COOK            CRAWFORD        DEKALB
   DUPAGE          FAYETTE         FORD            FRANKLIN        FULTON
   GALLATIN        GREENE          GRUNDY          HAMILTON        HANCOCK
   HARDIN          HENDERSON       HENRY           IROQUOIS        JACKSON
   JASPER          JERSEY          JO DAVIESS      JOHNSON         KANE
   KANKAKEE        KENDALL         LAKE            LEE             MCDONOUGH
   MCHENRY         MACON           MACOUPIN        MADISON         MASON
   MASSAC          MERCER          MONTGOMERY      OGLE            PEORIA
   PIATT           PIKE            POPE            PULASKI         RANDOLPH
   RICHLAND        SALINE          SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        SHELBY
   STARK           STEPHENSON      UNION           VERMILION       WARREN
   WASHINGTON      WAYNE           WHITE           WHITESIDE       WILL
   WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (tubers)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:    Basal
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple  Compound  (trifoliate)
    LEAF MARGIN:   Lobed  (palmately)
    LEAF VENATION:  Palmate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Oblong     Obovate     Orbicular     Cordate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Umbel
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Incomplete  (no petals)   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Red   White
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 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
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      4         MONTH END-      6
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in eroded clay slopes.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:
     FOOD VALUE:  No data entered
     COVER VALUE:  No data entered
 
 LIVESTOCK PALATABILITY DATA:
     CATTLE FORAGE: No data    SHEEP FORAGE:  No data    HORSE FORAGE:  No data
     GOAT FORAGE:   No data    ENERGY VALUE:  Low        PROTEIN VALUE: Low
     POISONOUS (LIVESTOCK):     -minor
 
 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.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Thalictrum thalictroides
 
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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