Trautvetteria caroliniensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae native to North America.

The genus is named for the botanist Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter.

[3] This plant is native to Asia and eastern and western North America.

It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing an erect stem up to 1.5 meters in maximum height.

The large leaf has a palmate blade up to 30 or 40 centimeters wide with deeply divided, pointed, toothed lobes.