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Habitat: |
cosmopolitan |
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Plant Height: |
to 5 dm mostly erect, sometimes prostrate |
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Flower Color: |
yellow |
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Flower: |
perfect; complete; 5 yellow petals; 10 stamens, outer antepetalous, 5 shorter; pistil erect |
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Inflorescence: |
terminal flower, usually 2-7 flowered |
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Fruit: |
capsular on straight or ascending stalk |
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Leaves: |
1-2 cm wide; palmate with 3 heart-shaped leaflets |
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Bloom Time: |
May through October |
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Origins: |
believed to be native |
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Other: |
referred to as O. europaea in some common field guides, though some differentiate between O. europaea and O. stricta based on whether seedpod stalks are deflexed; Gleason and Cronquist,1991, does not make same distinction, name taken from this source; leaves close a night | |