Thalictrum dasycarpum
Family:
Ranunculaceae
Common Name(s):
Meadow rue
Flowering Time:
June
Fruit/Seed Maturation Sign:
Achenes turn brown
Fruit/Seed Collection Dates:
Late July to early to mid August
Seed Cleaning:
None required
Storage:
Dry for short time; viability lost moderately fast with dry storage (Cullina 2000)
Restoration Potential:
Low
Notes
Experimental seed addition in a small field study resulted in establishment of no meadow rue after three years (Brudvig et al. 2011).
Low seed output Barkely 1986, Gleason and Cronquist 1991.
Caudex (base of stem and root) short and thick (Fernald 1950); no vegetative spread (Barkely 1986, Gleason and Cronquist 1991).
