Thalictrum sparsiflorum is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name fewflower meadow-rue.

[1] It is native to northwestern North America and parts of northeastern Asia.

It is a perennial herb producing erect stems up to about a meter in maximum height.

The leaves have compound blades divided into a few or many segments which are borne on long, slender petioles.

Each has a calyx of five greenish sepals, and up to 20 light-colored dangling stamens tipped with large anthers.