Thaspium

Thaspium is a genus of flowering plants in the Apiaceae (parsley or carrot family). A common name for the various Thaspium species is meadowparsnip^[2] or meadow-parsip. Its native range is eastern North America, from eastern Texas in the southwest to Maine in the northeast.^[3]

Thaspium
Thaspium barbinode
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Apiaceae
Subfamily:	Apioideae
Tribe:	Selineae
Genus:	Thaspium Nutt.
Species
Thaspium barbinode Thaspium chapmanii Thaspium pinnatifidum Thaspium trifoliatum [1]

Species

There are four accepted Thaspium species and one accepted variety:^[1]

• Thaspium barbinode (Michx.) Nutt. – hairyjoint meadowparsnip^[4]
• Thaspium chapmanii (J.M. Coult. & Rose) Small – hairy meadow-parsnip^[5]
• Thaspium pinnatifidum (Buckley) A. Gray – cutleaf meadowparsnip^[6]
• Thaspium trifoliatum (L.) A. Gray – purple meadowparsnip^[7]

• T. trifoliatum var. aureum (Nutt.) Britton