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|accepted_name=Cimicifuga rubifolia
|accepted_authority=Kearney
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|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=24: 561. 1897
|year=1897
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|common_names=Appalachian bugbane
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|hierarchy=Ranunculaceae;Cimicifuga;Cimicifuga rubifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ranunculaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cimicifuga]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cimicifuga rubifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>30-140 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole angled, 20-50 cm, proximally deeply grooved adaxially, densely pubescent in groove, otherwise glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade 1-2-ternately compound; leaflets 3-9(-17); terminal leaflet of central segments broadly obovate, deeply 3-5-lobed, 9-30 × 9-25 cm, with 5-9 prominent veins arising basally, base deeply cordate, margins coarsely and irregularly dentate, apex sharply acuminate, surfaces abaxially with long, appressed, delicate hairs, adaxially glabrous; other leaflets 8-24 × 6-22 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> erect panicles of 2-6 racemelike branches, terminal raceme 15-30 cm, puberulent to short-pubescent; bracts 3, subtending pedicel, central bract larger, lanceolate, 2 mm, lateral bracts ovate-deltate; pedicel to 5 mm, short-pubescent, bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, white; petals absent; stamens 35-65; filaments 3-5 mm; pistils 1(-2), sessile, sparsely glandular; style short, straight or slightly recurved; stigma minute, 0.2-0.3 mm wide. <b>Follicles</b> 1(-2), sessile, oblong, strongly compressed laterally, 8-20 mm, thin walled. <b>Seeds</b> reddish brown, lenticular, covering of scales giving cylindric appearance, ca. 3 mm, covered with reddish brown, membranous scales. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (Aug–Oct).
|habitat=North-facing, limestone talus slopes and river bluffs, ravines, and coves, and along rivers and creeks
|elevation=300-900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Tenn.;Va.
|discussion=<p>In addition to being found in the Ridge and Valley Province of Tennessee and Virginia, <i>Cimicifuga rubifolia</i> has disjunct populations in Alabama, the lower Ohio River Valley, and in the middle Tennessee counties of Davidson, Montgomery, and Stewart.</p><!--
--><p>The name <i>Cimicifuga racemosa</i> <i></i></i>var.<i><i> cordifolia</i> has been misapplied to <i>C. rubifolia</i>. See discussion of <i>C. cordifolia</i> under <i>C. americana</i>.</p>
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name=Cimicifuga rubifolia
|author=
|authority=Kearney
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Ranunculaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (Aug–Oct).
|habitat=North-facing, limestone talus slopes and river bluffs, ravines, and coves, and along rivers and creeks
|elevation=300-900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1897
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Cimicifuga
|species=Cimicifuga rubifolia
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