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Habitat: |
dry woods and fields |
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Plant Height: |
20-30 cm, trailing with long runners, initially weak, erect stems |
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Flower Color: |
yellow |
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Flower: |
0.5-1 cm wide; borne on long peduncle; 5 petals and sepals; stamens 5 to many; ovaries short with single ovule |
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Inflorescence: |
single flower borne on slender pedicels in leaf axis |
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Fruit: |
achenes in groups |
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Leaves: |
alternate, 5-parted leaves on tailing stem; leaflets palmately compound, long, slender and toothed along margins |
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Bloom Time: |
April-June |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
cinquefoil translates to five-fingers | |