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|accepted_name=Actaea pachypoda
|accepted_authority=Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sketch. Bot. S. Carolina
|place=2: 15. 1821
|year=1821
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|common_names=Doll's-eyes;actée &agrave; gros pédicelles
|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;Actaea;Actaea pachypoda
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ranunculaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Actaea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Actaea pachypoda]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaf </b>blade: leaflets abaxially ± glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> at anthesis often longer than wide, short-cylindric. <b>Flowers</b>: petals truncate or cleft, often antherlike at apex; stigma sessile, 1.5-2.8 mm diam. during anthesis, as broad as or broader than ovary. <b>Berries</b> white, very rarely red, widely ellipsoid to nearly globose, 6.5-9 mm; pedicel bright red, stout, (0.7-)0.9-2.2(-3) mm diam., ± as thick as axis of raceme. <b>Seeds</b> 3.4-4.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Deciduous forests, less often with pines, junipers, or other conifers
|elevation=0-1200 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>The "eye" formed by the persistent stigma in <i>Actaea pachypoda</i> is larger than that in <i>A. rubra</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Red- and pink-berried plants have been called <i>Actaea pachypoda</i> forma rubrocarpa (Killip) Fernald or A. ludovicii Boivin. Some of these plants are intermediate in morphology between <i>A. pachypoda</i> and <i>A. rubra</i>; they may be of hybrid origin. The sterility of fruits in many such plants lends support to this theory (R. S. Mitchell and J. K. Dean 1982).</p><!--
--><p><i>Actaea pachypoda</i> has been called A. alba (Linnaeus) Miller in some manuals (e.g., H. A. Gleason and A. Cronquist 1991; S. M. Walters et al. 1984+, vol. 3; Great Plains Flora Association 1986). Other authors (e.g., M. L. Fernald 1940; C. S. Keener 1977) have argued that the name A. alba is based on an illustration that is conspecific with the type of the European <i>A. spicata</i> Linnaeus and does not apply to plants here called <i>A. pachypoda</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Native Americans prepared infusions from <i>Actaea pachypoda</i> to use medicinally as a gargle or throat aid (D. E. Moerman 1986).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fernald1940a
|text=Fernald, M. L. 1940. What is Actaea alba? Rhodora 42: 260-265.
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name=Actaea pachypoda
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|authority=Elliott
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|parent rank=genus
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|basionyms=
|family=Ranunculaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Deciduous forests, less often with pines, junipers, or other conifers
|elevation=0-1200 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=fernald1940a
|publication title=Sketch. Bot. S. Carolina
|publication year=1821
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Actaea
|species=Actaea pachypoda
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