Montana Field Guide

Stems brown-hairy and glandular pubescent, ascending to erect, 20–90 cm from a nearly horizontal rootstock. Leaves petiolate, leafy-stipulate; the blade reniform, cordate, deeply 3- to 7-lobed with dentate margins, 2–20 cm wide, sparsely hairy, glandular-hairy on the veins beneath. Inflorescence a glandular, many-flowered, hemispheric panicle. Flowers campanulate, epigynous; calyx 3–5 mm long with a short tube and lanceolate lobes 1–4 mm long; petals 5–8 mm long, white, clawed; the blade ovate; stamens 5, inserted at the top of hypanthium. Capsules 4–5 mm long at maturity (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Wet meadows, forests, thickets, often along streams; montane, subalpine (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).