Lacy perennial adds delicate touch to landscape

Found from northern California to southern Alaska and east to Wyoming, Western Meadowrue (Thalictrum occidentale) is a beautiful, lacy looking perennial herb common in shady conifer forest understories and in moist meadows. Meadowrus is growing in the interior rain forest habitat in the North Idaho Native Plant Arboretum in Sandpoint, but it is the closely related T. dasycarpum species or Purple Meadowrue.