Montana Field Guide

Stems prostrate, unarmed, to 1 m long; erect branches herbaceous, 1–2 cm long with 1 to 3 leaves. Leaves long-petiolate with 3 leaflets 15–25 mm long, glabrate; the lateral ones divided almost to the base, giving 5 narrowly obovate segments. Flowers solitary, long-stalked from stem tips; hypanthium 1–2 mm long, glabrate; sepals narrowly lanceolate, ciliate, 7–12 mm long; petals white, 6–8 mm long, spreading. Fruit a red dewberry composed of few druplets (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Wet coniferous forest, Sphagnum fens; montane (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

POLLINATORS
The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap: Bombus vagans, Bombus auricomus, Bombus bifarius, Bombus borealis, Bombus centralis, Bombus melanopygus, Bombus mixtus, Bombus rufocinctus, Bombus ternarius, Bombus sitkensis, Bombus occidentalis, Bombus pensylvanicus, Bombus bimaculatus, Bombus griseocollis, Bombus impatiens, Bombus insularis, Bombus bohemicus, and Bombus flavidus (Heinrich 1976, Thorp et al. 1983, Mayer et al. 2000, Wilson et al. 2010, Colla and Dumesh 2010, Colla et al. 2011, Koch et al. 2012, Williams et al. 2014).