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River banks, moist places, banks, bushy places, 

 banks of streams, moist woods are the habitats of 

 this plant. It also grows in limestone swamps, with 

 Meadow Rue, Globe Flower, Meadow Sweet, Water 

 Avens, Grass of Parnassus, Valerian, Butter Bur, 

 Marsh Thistle, Marsh Lousewort, Marsh Orchis, 

 Marsh Helleborine, etc. 



The habit is erect. The plant is downy, woody 

 below. The stem is nearly simple, round in section, 

 with short branches furrowed, rough. The leaves 

 are opposite, divided into three to five leaflets. The 

 leaflets are broadly lance-shaped, coarsely toothed, 

 the middle lobes longest ; the radical leaves are 

 stalked and inversely lance-shaped, the stem-leaves 

 nearly stalkless. 



The flower-heads form a terminal clustered corymb, 

 with five to six heads, with about five florets in each. 

 The florets are pale purple or white. The involucres 

 are longer than the florets, cylindrical, with few, 

 unequal bracts, which have a membranous margin, 

 and are linear to oblong, blunt, the outer shorter. 



The pappus is white and hairy or rough, the hairs 

 in one row. The fruit is angular. The corollas are 

 covered with resinous points. 



The flowers are in bloom detween July and Septem- 

 ber. The plant is a herbaceous perennial, 2 to 4 ft. 

 in height. 



In the Hemp Agrimony the florets are all tubular 

 and bisexual. The flower-heads are numerous, and 

 they make the plant conspicuous. The floret is 



