OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Enemion biternatum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Enemion biternatum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Enemion biternatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Enemion biternatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-07-001:

Isopyrum biternatum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Isopyrum biternatum

 

COMMON NAME:
False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum


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image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_isbi2_001_lvd

        

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

Keith Bradley    kab_e_biternatum_3784

February    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

Keith Bradley    kab_e_biternatum_3895

February    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

Jerry Bright    jeb_031508_023

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

Enemion biternatum has 5 petaloid sepals, whereas Thalictrum thalictroides has 5-10, per Weakley's Flora (2022).


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image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

JK Marlow    jkm120326_006

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

JK Marlow    jkm120326_994

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_enemion_biternatum_5

March        

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_enemion_biternatum_6

March        

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

JK Marlow    jkm070407_105

April    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

JK Marlow    jkm110416_821

April    Etowah County    AL

Its leaflets are more deeply lobed than those of Thalictrum thalictroides, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

JK Marlow    jkm110416_832

April    Etowah County    AL

Its multi-tiered leaves distinguish it from Thalictrum thalictroides, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

image of Enemion biternatum, False Rue-anemone, Isopyrum

JK Marlow    jkm180408_241

April    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

Fruit is a cluster of four pod-like follicles, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).


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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Enemion biternatum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Enemion biternatum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Enemion biternatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Enemion biternatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-07-001:
Isopyrum biternatum   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Isopyrum biternatum

 

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766

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Rich forests, either on natural levees with very nutrient rich sediments or on slopes with underlying mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Complexly compound, with 2+ levels of pinnate and/or ternate compoundness
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring
White
5 sepals
Petals absent
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring
Aggregate of follicles

 

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