Intro: Erect perennial found in seepages and moist forests, on waterfall spray cliffs and brook banks.

Stems: Stems slender, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem, twice divided into 3; the ultimate leaflets are oval to round, 1/2-1½ in. wide, lobed at the tip, blue-green above and white beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in an open, spreading panicle; white; about 1/3 in. wide; pom-pom-shaped, lacking petals but with many flattened, white stamens and 5 diminutive to absent white sepals.

Fruits: Fruit a small, round head of 3-8 sickle-shaped achenes.

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Height: 6-24 in.

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description: Erect perennial found in seepages and moist forests, on waterfall spray cliffs and brook banks.

stems: Stems slender, smooth.

leaves: Leaves basal and alternate on the stem, twice divided into 3; the ultimate leaflets are oval to round, 1/2-1½ in. wide, lobed at the tip, blue-green above and white beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in an open, spreading panicle; white; about 1/3 in. wide; pom-pom-shaped, lacking petals but with many flattened, white stamens and 5 diminutive to absent white sepals.

fruits: Fruit a small, round head of 3-8 sickle-shaped achenes.

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