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Habitat: |
common in woods, thickets, meadows, rocky outcrops |
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Plant Height: |
to 60 cm; multiple erect, pubescent stems from base |
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Flower Color: |
pink or white |
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Flower: |
perfect; complete; 5 small, pointed sepals; 5 petals; 2.5-4 cm wide; stamens 10, 5 with glandular bases; single pistil with 5 carpels, stigma 5-lobed |
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Inflorescence: |
terminal corymb of 1-4 flowers |
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Fruit: |
elongated, beaked capsule |
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Leaves: |
opposite; long petioles on basal leaves, shorter on cauline leaves, hirsute (course pubescence); palmately divided with 3-7 pubescent lobes; margins on basal leaves entire, cauline leaves coarsely toothed |
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Bloom Time: |
late April-June |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
Crane's Bill and genus name both refer to beak-like capsule | |