Perennial. Moist woods and thickets. Ontario to Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas. Rare in northern Ohio. May.

Root

Fibrous and bearing small tubers.

Stem

Erect, slender, branching above.

Leaves

Basal leaves ternately compound, long-petioled; the ultimate segments obovate, obtuse, lobed, or divided; stem-leaves similar but sessile or short-petioled.

Flowers

Several, white, terminal and axillary, one-half to three-fourths of an inch across.

Corolla

Wanting.

Calyx

Of five petaloid sepals, oblong, acute, or obtuse.

Stamens

Many.

Pistil

Of many carpels, forming a head of follicles in fruit; each follicle many-seeded and long-beaked.

False Rue Anemone

False Rue-Anemone. Isopyrum biternatum After Gray's " Genera Plantae Americae"

Isopyrum so greatly resembles Meadow Rue Anemone that it is sometimes called False Rue-Anemone, but the little plant is quite worthy a name of its own. Its botanic name is of Greek derivation, but without significance so far as we know.