Thalictrum mirabile

Small

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27: 277. 1900.

Conservation concernEndemicIllustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.

Stems weakly erect to reclining, 10-30 cm, glabrous. Leaves basal and cauline; basal petioles 2 cm, distal petioles shorter. Leaf-blade: basal usually ternately compound, distal gradually less divided; leaflets nearly orbiculate to orbiculate-reniform, apically 4-7-lobed, 20-30 mm wide, lobe margins crenate, surfaces abaxially glaucescent. Inflorescences panicles, few flowered. Flowers: sepals white, spatulate to rhombic-spatulate, 1.5 mm; filaments white, 2-3 mm; anthers 0.3-0.5 mm. Achenes 3-8, spreading; stipe 2.5-3.5 mm, nearly as long as achene body; body flat, 2.5-4 mm, abaxial margin convex, adaxial margin straight, conspicuously 3-veined on each face; beak minute.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–early summer (Jun).
Habitat: Moist sandstone bluffs, sinks, and rocky crevices
Elevation: 200-1500 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ga., Ky., N.C., Tenn.

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Thalictrum mirabile is very similar to T. clavatum. Field studies are in progress to clarify the status of this species.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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long-stipitate +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
Marilyn M. Park +  and Dennis Festerling Jr. +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
cuneate +, truncate +  and cordate +
Undefined sect. Physocarpum +
straight +
minute +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
globose;cylindric +
Ala. +, Ga. +, Ky. +, N.C. +  and Tenn. +
200-1500 m +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
showy +  and inconspicuous +
unisexual +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (41 cm410 mm <br />0.41 m <br />) +
stipitate +, sessile +  and aggregate +
falcate;ovoid;obovoid +
Moist sandstone bluffs, sinks, and rocky crevices +
compound +  and simple +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
cauline +  and basal +
4-7-lobed +, nearly orbiculate +  and orbiculate-reniform +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
palmate +  and pinnate +
crenate;entire +
(1-)2-200-flowered +
distinct +
conspicuous +
spurred +, funnel--shaped +, cup-shaped +  and plane +
reduced +
Flowering late spring–early summer (Jun). +
1 +  and 16 +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
not arillate +  and stalked +
not persistent +
distinct +
spatulate +  and rhombic-spatulate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
ribbed +  and veined +
Conservation concern +, Endemic +  and Illustrated +
weakly erect +  and reclining +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
persistent +
glaucescent +
Undefined sect. Sumnera +
Thalictrum mirabile +
Thalictrum sect. Physocarpum +
species +
herbaceous +  and woody +