Carolina Bugbane, False Bugbane, Tassle Rue, Western Bugbane, Wild Bugbane
Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. occidentalis
Synonyms: Trautvetteria caroliniensis, Trautvetteria caroliniensis var. borealis, Trautvetteria grandis
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The photo at left shows a close-up of the flowers
and upper stem leaves of tassel-rue. Photographed at the forest / meadow interface
immediately to the north of Hellroaring Creek adjacent to the Island Springs
Trail #66 on Yakama Nation lands at the southeastern corner of Mt. Adams.........July
17, 2005. Each flower lacks petals, the balls that are seen consisting
of numerous, white stamens and styles. The photo at right shows tassel-rue blooming at a moist spot along the Lewis River Trail #31 downstream of Bolt Camp, Gifford Pinchot National Forest.......June 18, 2024.
The photo above shows a close-up side-view of the inflorescence
of tassel-rue as seen at an area of moist seeps and marshes at about 4300' atop
the ridge that separates the Cougar and Dairy Creek drainages at the southeastern
corner of Mt. Adams.........July 10, 2005. On this species, the petals are
absent and the 4-8 sepals soon fall, leaving behind a ball of long, white stamens
and a central, greenish ball styles.
The photo above shows the deeply lobed, simple-palmate leaf blade
of tassel-rue as seen at an area of moist seeps and marshes at about 4300' atop
the ridge that separates the Cougar and Dairy Creek drainages at the southeastern
corner of Mt. Adams........July 10, 2005.
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Tassel-rue as seen along the Strawberry Mountain Trail #220 near the boundary between the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Mount Saint Helens National Monument..........June 21, 2015.
Inflorescence of tassel-rue as seen on the moist shoreline-forest edge interface at the eastern edge of Bench Lake, Tract D Yakama Lands on the east side of Mount Adams...........August 11, 2013.
Leaf blade of tassel-rue as seen along the Loowit Trail #216 between Sheep Canyon and the South Fork Toutle River crossing, Mount Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument..........October 19, 2014.
Paul Slichter