Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 30 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Alaska | ASK | NORTHERN AMERICA |
| Alberta | ABT | |
| British Columbia | BRC | |
| California | CAL | |
| Colorado | COL | |
| Idaho | IDA | |
| Manitoba | MAN | |
| Montana | MNT | |
| Nevada | NEV | |
| Northwest Territories | NWT | |
| Ontario | ONT | |
| Oregon | ORE | |
| Saskatchewan | SAS | |
| Utah | UTA | |
| Wyoming | WYO | |
| Yukon | YUK | |
| Amur | AMU | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Buryatiya | BRY | |
| Chita | CTA | |
| Irkutsk | IRK | |
| Kamchatka | KAM | |
| Khabarovsk | KHA | |
| Korea | KOR | |
| Krasnoyarsk | KRA | |
| Magadan | MAG | |
| Manchuria | CHM | |
| Primorye | PRM | |
| Sakhalin | SAK | |
| West Siberia | WSB | |
| Yakutiya | YAK |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 254 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -27.3 °C | -11.1 °C | -4.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 16.1 °C | 21.9 °C | 26.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 464 mm | 902 mm | 1,579 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 35 mm | 62 mm | 179 mm |
It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 254 research-grade observations of Thalictrum sparsiflorum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 5 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Thalictrum richardsonii A.Gray
- Thalictrum sparsiflorum subsp. richardsonii (A.Gray) Cody
- Thalictrum sparsiflorum var. nevadense B.Boivin
- Thalictrum sparsiflorum var. richardsonii (A.Gray) B.Boivin
- Thalictrum sparsiflorum var. viridius B.Boivin
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.