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Habitat: |
rich woods |
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Plant Height: |
10-30 cm |
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Flower Color: |
white |
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Flower: |
complete; perfect; outer 2 petals with extended saccate bases, connate, with reflexed apical lobes, yellow at the base (throat of the corolla); stamens 6, erect; ovary superior, unilocular, tapering to a short style; sepals 4, in two pairs, decussate; flower "V" shaped |
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Inflorescence: |
terminal raceme, arising from bulb; glabrous |
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Fruit: |
capsular |
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Leaves: |
basal, long-petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets petiolulate, pinnately divided |
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Bloom Time: |
early April-May |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
similar species: D. canadensis; both species are poisonous to grazing cattle | |