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|accepted_name=Thalictrum fendleri
|accepted_authority=Engelmann ex A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, ser.
|place=2, 4: 5. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Fendler's meadow-rue
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Thalictrum fendleri var. platycarpum
|authority=Trelease
|rank=variety
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|name=Thalictrum fendleri var. wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) Trelease
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Ranunculaceae;Thalictrum;Thalictrum sect. Heterogamia;Thalictrum fendleri
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ranunculaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Thalictrum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Thalictrum sect. Heterogamia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Thalictrum fendleri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Roots </b>dark brown to ± black (when dry), fibrous. <b>Stems</b> mostly erect, sometimes reclining, (20-)30-60(-150) cm, glabrous, from rhizomes or branched caudices. <b>Leaves</b> mainly cauline, mostly short-petiolate. <b>Leaf</b> blade green, (2-)3-4×-ternately compound, membranous; leaflets obliquely orbiculate or nearly cordate, apically 3-lobed, (5-)10-20 × (6-)8-12(-18) mm wide, lobe margins crenate, surfaces abaxially often glandular. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, panicles, open and leafy, many flowered. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals whitish or greenish, in staminate flowers ovate to elliptic, 3-5 mm; in pistillate flowers ovate to rhombic or broadly lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm; filaments deep yellow or purplish, 4-7.5 mm; anthers 2.2-3.4 mm, apiculate with tip to 0.8 mm; stigma purplish. <b>Achenes</b> 7-11(-14), not reflexed, sessile to short-stipitate; stipe 0-2 mm; body oblanceolate to obliquely obovate-elliptic, strongly laterally compressed, (5-)9(-11) mm, glandular or glabrous, 3-4(-5)-veined on each side, veins ± parallel, converging toward ends (rarely branched or sinuous), not anastomosing-reticulate; beak 1.5-4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early-mid summer (Jun–Aug).
|habitat=Willow, birch, mountain brush, sagebrush-snowberry, boxelder-cottonwood, alder, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, aspen-tall forb, and spruce-fir communities
|elevation=1100-3300 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>The stems and achenes of <i>Thalictrum fendleri</i> are often purplish.</p><!--
--><p>Decoctions prepared from the roots of <i>Thalictrum fendleri</i> were used medicinally by Native Americans to cure colds and gonorrhea, and in ceremonies (D. E. Moerman 1986).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Thalictrum fendleri
|authority=Engelmann ex A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Thalictrum fendleri var. platycarpum;Thalictrum fendleri var. wrightii
|basionyms=
|family=Ranunculaceae
|phenology=Flowering early-mid summer (Jun–Aug).
|habitat=Willow, birch, mountain brush, sagebrush-snowberry, boxelder-cottonwood, alder, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, aspen-tall forb, and spruce-fir communities
|elevation=1100-3300 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, ser.
|publication year=1849
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_936.xml
|genus=Thalictrum
|section=Thalictrum sect. Heterogamia
|species=Thalictrum fendleri
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