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Habitat: |
wet meadows, damp fields, waste ground and disturbed areas |
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Plant Height: |
20-80 cm (1'-3'); multiple stems from base |
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Flower Color: |
yellow |
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Flower: |
short stamens partly surrounded at base by a semicircular gland, 4 petals; 4 greenish sepals; 6 stamens, 4 longer, 2 shorter; single ovary with persistent style |
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Inflorescence: |
compact, terminal racemes |
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Fruit: |
many seeded beaked siliques, beak 2-3 mm |
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Leaves: |
alternate; basal leaves petiolate with 1-4 pairs (2-8) of small, elliptic to ovate lateral lobes and a large, ovate to rotund terminal lobe; cauline leaves becoming reduced, clasping stem |
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Bloom Time: |
April-June |
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Origins: |
non-native |
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Other: |
this native of Eurasia is now widely naturalized as a weed | |