Cimicifuga L.

Herbs, perennial, tall, erect. Leaves 2 - 5 times ternately compound. Flowers actinomorphic, yellow in slender axillary racemes or terminal panicles. Sepals 4 - 5, petaloid, deciduous. Petals (or staminodes) 4 - 5, fleshy, bifid with 2 rounded lobes at apex. Carpels 3 - 8, many-ovuled; styles thickened, elongate. Follicles 2 - 8, in clusters, dry, dehiscent with curved beaks

Northern temperate regions; ca 15 species, one in India.

List of Lower Taxa