NameThatPlant.net: Filipendula rubra

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Filipendula rubra FAMILY Rosaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Queen-of-the-Prairie at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Filipendula rubra FAMILY Rosaceae

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

Filipendula rubra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Filipendula rubra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-12-001:

Filipendula rubra FAMILY Rosaceae

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

Filipendula rubra

COMMON NAME:
Queen-of-the-Prairie

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image of Filipendula rubra, Queen-of-the-Prairie

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_firu2_001_lvd

Terminal leaflet with 7-9 palmate lobes; lateral leaflets lobed and toothed, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Filipendula rubra FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Filipendula rubra FAMILY Rosaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Filipendula rubra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-12-001:
Filipendula rubra FAMILY Rosaceae

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

570

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: fens, wet meadows, seeps, over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Pinnately compound; leaflets palmately lobed
Alternate (basal leaves absent or withered at flowering)
Leaves have petioles.
Leaves are subtended by stipules.

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Strongly rhizomatous, forming irregular patches

FLOWER:
Summer
Pink to purplish
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals

Inflorescence an anthela, w lateral flowering branches exceeding the main axis

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

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