Intro: Erect to prostrate winter annual/biennial/short-lived perennial of various habitats, primarily seasonally wet areas with shallow soil or sand; also in glades on mafic outcrops (greenstone, diabase) and nutrient-rich granite.

Stems: Stems slightly angular, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves numerous, the basal ones pinnately divided into 4-5 pairs of roundish leaflets, and the alternate stem leaves divided into 2-6 pairs of much narrower leaflets.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers on ascending stalks in a short terminal raceme, white, less than ¼ in. wide, consisting of 4 tiny oval petals, 4 lance-shaped sepals, several stamens and a pistil with a short stout style.

Fruits: Fruit a thin, linear, green pod; pods ripen on lower flower stalks while upper flowers are still blooming.

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Height: 3-15 in.

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description: Erect to prostrate winter annual/biennial/short-lived perennial of various habitats, primarily seasonally wet areas with shallow soil or sand; also in glades on mafic outcrops (greenstone, diabase) and nutrient-rich granite.

stems: Stems slightly angular, smooth.

leaves: Leaves numerous, the basal ones pinnately divided into 4-5 pairs of roundish leaflets, and the alternate stem leaves divided into 2-6 pairs of much narrower leaflets.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers on ascending stalks in a short terminal raceme, white, less than ¼ in. wide, consisting of 4 tiny oval petals, 4 lance-shaped sepals, several stamens and a pistil with a short stout style.

fruits: Fruit a thin, linear, green pod; pods ripen on lower flower stalks while upper flowers are still blooming.

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