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|accepted_name=Jeffersonia diphylla
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Persoon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl.
|place=1: 418. 1805
|year=1805
}}
|common_names=Twinleaf;rheumatism-root
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Podophyllum diphyllum
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 505. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Berberidaceae;Jeffersonia;Jeffersonia diphylla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Berberidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Jeffersonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Jeffersonia diphylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Leaves:</b> petiole slender, erect, 9-25 cm at anthesis, maturing to 18-43 cm. <b>Leaf</b> blade 2-foliolate, often with minute apiculation between leaflets; leaflets 1.2-4 × 0.6-2.5 cm at anthesis, maturing to 6-13 × 3-7 cm, lobes rounded to acute. <b>Scapes</b> 9-33 cm, frequently taller than petioles at anthesis. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals elliptic to obovate, 7-15 × 4-6 mm; petals white, elliptic to obovate, 11-22 × 9-12 mm; stamens 6-12 mm; filaments 2-3 mm; anthers 4-9 × 1-1.5 mm; ovaries 6-11 × 3-7 mm. <b>Fruits</b> 18-38 × 8-17 mm, leathery, opening transversely, apical quarter resembling lid, becoming reflexed. <b>Seeds</b> oblong, 4-7 × 2 mm; aril laciniate, attached at adaxial side of hilum. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring; fruiting spring.
|habitat=Rich moist woods to semiopen rocky slopes and outcrops, usually over limestone or other calcareous rocks
|elevation=100-800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Plants of <i>Jeffersonia diphylla</i> were used medicinally by Native Americans for treatment of dropsy, gravel and urinary ailments, and for gall and diarrhea, and in poultices for sores and ulcers (D. E. Moermann 1986).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Jeffersonia diphylla
|authority=(Linnaeus) Persoon
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Podophyllum diphyllum
|family=Berberidaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring; fruiting spring.
|habitat=Rich moist woods to semiopen rocky slopes and outcrops, usually over limestone or other calcareous rocks
|elevation=100-800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Ala.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl.
|publication year=1805
|special status=Endemic;Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_1012.xml
|genus=Jeffersonia
|species=Jeffersonia diphylla
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