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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
This is a variable plant, taking many forms. It is an annual herb growing prostrate to upright in form, thin to fleshy and usually hairless in texture.
Identification notes: Small, leafy annual herb, stems prostrate to ascending, slender, wiry, hairless; dense mat of bright green leaves divided into 3 leaflets with cream-colored edges; flowers are clustered in dense, round heads up to 1 inch in diameter.
Height:
To 2 feet
Habitat Description: Found in wet areas and along streams.
Plant Communities:
Riparian
Elevation: 1900 - 7988 feet
Color:
Purple, white tips
Shape:
Irregular in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - May
Description:
Flower head is round cluster containing a single flower or many flowers to 1/2 inch wide; base is a fused whorl of bracts; each flower has a calyx of sepals narrowing to bristle-like tips; purple corolla usually with a white tip.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
No
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leaves divided into 3 leaflets with finely toothed margins, reverse lance-like to oval, 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, notched with teeth pointing toward apex, wedge-shaped at base, hairless; oval, toothed leaf-like appendage at base of stalk.
Fruit Type: Pod
Fruit Notes: Small, cylindrical and tapering (terete) pods, not splitting open to release seed when ripe (indehiscent).
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