Stinking Cimicifuga

Family Ranunculaceae. Native range - Mongolia, Siberia. Found in forests, forest meadows, and along forest edges.

Rhizome thick, short, many-headed. Stems herbaceous, tall (90-200 cm), one or several arising from the rhizome, densely covered with glandular and simple hairs. Leaves large, lower ones on long petioles widened at the base, biternate, with long odd-pinnate sessile segments. Terminal segments oblong-ovate, 5-7 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, tapering to the apex, pinnately incised, margins serrately toothed, hairy along the veins on the underside. Flowers bisexual, in a paniculate inflorescence, also pubescent like the stem. Bracts subulate, equal to the flower. Sepals petaloid, deciduous. Nectariferous petals entire, nearly membranous at the apex. Stamens numerous. Blooms in mid-summer. Drought-tolerant.