Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Coptis laciniata Consolida regalis Coptis aspleniifolia Coptis occidentalis Coptis trifolia Consolida pubescens Consolida ajacis Xanthorhiza simplicissima	John Myers John Myers John Myers John Myers John Myers John Myers John Myers John Myers

Shrubs, deciduous, from long, slender, yellow rhizomes. Leaves cauline, petiolate; cauline leaves alternate. Leaf-blade 1-2-pinnately compound; leaflets lanceovate to broadly ovate or rhombic, margins variously sharply cleft, incised, or serrate. Inflorescences axillary, many-flowered panicles, 5-21 cm; bracts scalelike, not forming involucre. Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric; sepals persistent in fruit, 5, dark brown-purple to greenish yellow, plane, lanceolate to oblanceolate, usually clawed, ca. 2.5-5 mm; petals 5, distinct, brown-purple, plane, peltate, 0.5-0.9 mm; nectary terminal, transversely oblong, 2-lobed; stamens 5 (or 10); filaments with base expanded; staminodes absent between stamens and pistils; pistils (2-) 5-10, simple; ovules 2, basal ovule aborting; style present. Fruits follicles, aggregate, sessile, compressed, obliquely oblong or somewhat sickle-shaped, sides not veined; beak becoming abaxial, curved, 0.4-0.8 mm. Seeds reddish-brown, ovoid, smooth. x=18.

Distribution

North America

Discussion

Species 1 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Xanthorhiza simplicissima