Intro: Delicate, erect perennial found often in dense patches in rich forests, either on natural levees with very nutrient-rich sediments or on slopes with underlying mafic rocks.

Stems: Stems slender, sparingly branched, reddish-tinged, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem, petiolate, divided into 3 leaflets up to 1 in. long, these again divided into 3 bluntly rounded lobes; the terminal leaflet is longer-stalked than the 2 lateral leaflets.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary, or in groups of 2-3, on thin stalks from leaf axils; white; consisting of 5 petal-like sepals, several slender stamens with yellow anthers and a few green pistils in the center.

Fruits: Fruit a small cluster of beaked follicles.

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Height: 8-16 in.

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description: Delicate, erect perennial found often in dense patches in rich forests, either on natural levees with very nutrient-rich sediments or on slopes with underlying mafic rocks.

stems: Stems slender, sparingly branched, reddish-tinged, smooth.

leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem, petiolate, divided into 3 leaflets up to 1 in. long, these again divided into 3 bluntly rounded lobes; the terminal leaflet is longer-stalked than the 2 lateral leaflets.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary, or in groups of 2-3, on thin stalks from leaf axils; white; consisting of 5 petal-like sepals, several slender stamens with yellow anthers and a few green pistils in the center.

fruits: Fruit a small cluster of beaked follicles.

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native range: eastern United States