Purple meadow rue
Thalictrum dasycarpum Fish. & Lall.
other common names: maid-of-the-mist, meadow rue
Thalictrum: the name of a plant mentioned by Dioscorides, an ancient Greek naturalist, and later applied to this genus
Dasycarpum: from Latin, meaning “hairy-carpelled.” (A carpel is the seed-bearing organ of the plant or a unit of that organ.)
Buttercup family: Ranunculaceae
Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition
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