Intro: Weakly spreading-ascending, mounded annual of roadsides, pastures and other open, disturbed areas. Native of Europe and w. Asia.

Stems: Stems generally reddish, branched from the base, covered with soft hairs of 2 lengths.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate (reddish), round in outline and shallowly divided into 5-11 oblong-oval lobes, which may be further lobed or toothed and are hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers usually in clusters of 2 on stalks from leaf axils, magenta, about 1/3 in. wide, funnel-shaped, consisting of 5 distinctly bi-lobed petals, 5 very hairy sepals and stamens pressed close to the ovary and bearing purple anthers.

Fruits: Fruit a long-beaked capsule that splits into 5 pieces curling upward.

Comments: This plant is considered an aggressive weed.

Height: 6-12 in.

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description: Weakly spreading-ascending, mounded annual of roadsides, pastures and other open, disturbed areas. Native of Europe and w. Asia.

stems: Stems generally reddish, branched from the base, covered with soft hairs of 2 lengths.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate (reddish), round in outline and shallowly divided into 5-11 oblong-oval lobes, which may be further lobed or toothed and are hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers usually in clusters of 2 on stalks from leaf axils, magenta, about 1/3 in. wide, funnel-shaped, consisting of 5 distinctly bi-lobed petals, 5 very hairy sepals and stamens pressed close to the ovary and bearing purple anthers.

fruits: Fruit a long-beaked capsule that splits into 5 pieces curling upward.

comments: This plant is considered an aggressive weed.

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