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	Aruncus dioicus

Goat’sbeard

Showy Garden Plant – that ‘goes wild’ locally.

For eastern see this site

Every year the plant regenerates from roots stock.

Growing huge leaves triply compound

The local taxon (A. sylvestre) now lumped in with all north American entity

See ITIS for taxonomy and links to WWW

Male and female flowers are on separate pants thus the Latin name

The Males are the ‘pretty ones”

Maturing seed pods

Some have already released the seeds

Others are still green

Composed on June 16, 2002

Last modified 6/16/02 1:32 PM