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leaves |
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Habitat: |
rich, open woods and thickets |
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Plant Height: |
30-90 cm, erect stem |
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Flower Color: |
greenish yellow |
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Flower: |
staminate flowers 12-15 per umbellet with 5 stamens, surpassed by fruits; perfect flowers resemble staminate flowers with slightly longer stamens, 2 spreading styles |
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Inflorescence: |
compound umbels of staminate and perfect flowers, umbellets subtended by minute bracts |
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Fruit: |
stalked wit persistent styles longer than the bristles |
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Leaves: |
basal leaves on long petiole with cauline leaves becoming sessile, palmately compound usually with 5 serrated leaflets |
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Bloom Time: |
April-June |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
forms clumps of stems from fibrous roots | |