Hairyjoint Meadowparsnip

Thaspium barbinode (Michx). Nutt. Gen. 1: 196. 1818
Ligusticum (?) barbinode Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 167. 1803.
Smyrnium barbinode Muhl. Cat. 32. 1813.
Thaspium barbinode var. anguslifolium Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 12: 137. 1887.
Thaspium barbinode var. pinnalifidum Coult. & Rose, Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 84. 1888. Not Zizia
pinnatifida Buckl. 1843. Thaspium barbinode var. Chapmani Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 148. 1900. Thaspium barbinode var. Garmani Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 148. 1900.
Plants 5-9 dm. high, glabrous or pubescent at the nodes; basal leaves ovate to orbicular in general outline, excluding the petioles 6-12 cm. long, ternate-pinnate, the leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-15 mm. long, 10-25 mm. broad, distinct, coarsely serrate or incised; petioles 5-10 cm. long; cauline leaves like the basal, the upper sessile; peduncles 4—8 cm. long; involucel of inconspicuous, linear, acute bractlets, 1-4 mm. long; rays 8-15, spreading-ascending, subequal, 1-3 cm. long; pedicels 2-5 mm. long; flowers yellow; fruit oval or oblong, glabrous or puberulent, 3-6 mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad; several of the ribs prominently winged; seedface plane.
Type locality: "In Carolina superiore," Mickaux ?
Distribution: New York to Florida, west to Ontario and Oklahoma (Curtiss 1022, Friesner 5577,

Thaspium barbinode, known by the common names of bearded meadow-parsnip and hairy-jointed meadow-parsnip, is a member of the carrot family, Apiaceae. It is a perennial herb, native to the eastern United States, from eastern Texas to southeastern Wisconsin and the Florida panhandle to southern New York. Compared to Thaspium chapmanii, the herb is shorter, and has similar bright yellow flowers.