Intro: Weakly erect perennial found in moist slope forests, bottomland forests and swamp forests.

Stems: Stems arising from a basal rosette to 6 in. wide, hairy; lower stem brownish-green.

Leaves: Basal leaves flat to ground, on petioles with stipules at the base, variably shaped from unlobed to 3-lobed or palmately divided into diamond-shaped segments; stem leaves alternate, to 4 in. long, 3- to 5-lobed or divided; upper stem leaves usually sessile, undivided and smaller.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a terminal leafy panicle, 1-3 flowers per primary branch; white; about 1/2 in. wide; consisting of 5 spreading oblong petals, 5 slightly shorter triangular sepals and numerous stamens surrounding a green domed ovary covered with styles.

Fruits: Fruit a bristly, round head of many beaked achenes.

Comments:

Height: 1 1/2-2 1/2 ft.

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description: Weakly erect perennial found in moist slope forests, bottomland forests and swamp forests.

stems: Stems arising from a basal rosette to 6 in. wide, hairy; lower stem brownish-green.

leaves: Basal leaves flat to ground, on petioles with stipules at the base, variably shaped from unlobed to 3-lobed or palmately divided into diamond-shaped segments; stem leaves alternate, to 4 in. long, 3- to 5-lobed or divided; upper stem leaves usually sessile, undivided and smaller.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a terminal leafy panicle, 1-3 flowers per primary branch; white; about 1/2 in. wide; consisting of 5 spreading oblong petals, 5 slightly shorter triangular sepals and numerous stamens surrounding a green domed ovary covered with styles.

fruits: Fruit a bristly, round head of many beaked achenes.

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native range: eastern & central North America