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Stems curved-ascending, 1.5–6 dm, covered with 4-rayed appressed hairs, as also the petioles, peduncles, and lower lf-surfaces; basal and lower lvs cordate to triangular or ovate, crenate-lobulate or often some of or all them ± lobed or cleft, the other lvs few, smaller, and generally deeply cleft; stipules 5–10 mm, persistent; peduncles (pedicels) axillary to reduced upper lvs or bracts, 1-fld; gynodioecious, the functionally pistillate fls with smaller sep and pet and fewer, nonfunctional anthers; epicalyx wanting; cal hispid-strigose; sep-tips connivent in bud, forming a short beak; pet white to pink or mauve, erose or fimbriate across the top, mostly 15–25 mm (7–17 mm in pistillate fls); mature carpels indurate, reticulate-rugose, copiously strigose; 2n=28. Prairies and roadsides; Ill. to Tenn., w. to Nebr., Kans., and Tex., more common westward. May–July.
