Trautvetteria

Trautvetteria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Ranunculaceae
Genus:	Trautvetteria; Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
Species:	T. caroliniensis
Binomial name
	Trautvetteria caroliniensis; (Walter) Vail

Trautvetteria is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family. Today it is often considered a monotypic genus, containing only one species, Trautvetteria caroliniensis,^[1] which is known by the common names Carolina bugbane,^[2] false bugbane, and tassel-rue. A second species, T. japonica, is now generally considered a variety of this species.^[3] The genus is named for the botanist Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter.^[1]

This plant is native to Asia and eastern and western North America. It grows in moist wooded areas and other habitat. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing an erect stem up to 1.5 meters in maximum height. The large leaf has a palmate blade up to 30 or 40 centimeters wide with deeply divided, pointed, toothed lobes. The blade is borne on a long, slender petiole which may measure up to 45 centimeters long. The leaf is green, darker on top and paler underneath. The inflorescence is a panicle with several clusters of flowers on branches. The flower has no petals and is mostly made up of many long, white stamens each up to a centimeter long. At the center is a spherical cluster of green pistils. This develops into a spherical cluster of green fruits.

The plant contains protoanemonin, which may cause blistering or skin irritation.^[4]

Stem leaves are deeply lobed (background leaves are Rubus)

References[]

^ ^a ^b Flora of North America: Trautvetteria
^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Trautvetteria caroliniensis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
^ Flora of North America: T. caroliniensis
^ Fagan, Damian (2019). Wildflowers of Oregon: A Field Guide to Over 400 Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Coast, Cascades, and High Desert. Guilford, CT: FalconGuides. p. 79. ISBN 1-4930-3633-5. OCLC 1073035766.

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[fna1-1] Flora of North America: Trautvetteria

[2] USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Trautvetteria caroliniensis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 December 2015.

[fna2-3] Flora of North America: T. caroliniensis

[4] Fagan, Damian (2019). Wildflowers of Oregon: A Field Guide to Over 400 Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Coast, Cascades, and High Desert. Guilford, CT: FalconGuides. p. 79. ISBN 1-4930-3633-5. OCLC 1073035766.

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