Description ³

Rosaceae | rough-fruited cinquefoil/sulphur cinquefoil
An erect, hairy plant with flat-topped, sparse clusters of pale yellow flowers with notched petals.

Habitat: Roadsides, dry fields, and waste places.

Flowers: 3/4" wide; sepals and petals usually 5 each, petals large compared to sepals; stamens and pistils numerous, with anthers at least 1/16" long.

Leaves: Compound, divided into 5-7 blunt-tipped, toothed leaves 1-3" long.

Fruit: Dry, seed-like.

Uncommon in Elk Lick Creek ravine.

Thieret, J. W., Niering, W. A., & Olmstead, N. C. (2001). National Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers: eastern region (Chanticleer Press ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

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