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Shrubby Five-finger or Cinquefoil 

 Dasiphora fruticosa (Linnaeus) Rydberg 



Plate 96b 



A branching shrub with ascending or erect, leafy branches, 1 to 4 feet 

 high. Leaves pinnate, leaflets five to seven, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, 

 pointed at each end, one-half to 1 inch long, silky-pubescent, the margins 

 entire and revolute; stipules membranous, ovate-lanceolate, entire and 

 pointed. Flowers terminal, in dense or loose cymose clusters, or solitary, 

 bright yellow, three-fourths to i\ inches broad; the fiv^ calyx lobes ovate, 

 with five bractlets; petals five, nearly orbicular and longer than the calyx 

 lobes. Achenes of the fruit covered with long straight hairs. 



In swampy or marshy places, often in moist rocky places, Labrador and 

 Greenland to Alaska, south to New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, Rocky 

 mountains and California; also in northern Europe and Asia. In northern 

 New England it is often a troublesome, bushy weed. Flowering from 

 June to September. 



American Great Burnet 



Sanguisorba canadensis Linnaeus 



Plate 94b 



An erect, leafy, herbaceous plant from a thick, perennial root; stems 

 sometimes decumbent at the base, glabrous or somewhat pubescent below, 

 simple or branched above, 1 to 6 feet high. Leaves odd-pinnate, the lower 

 leaves long petioled, sometimes 1 to i| feet long; leaflets seven to fifteen, 

 ovate, oblong or oval, blunt or pointed at the apex; pointed, blunt or even 

 cordate at the base, sharply toothed. Flowers white, in dense terminal 

 spikes, 1 to 6 inches long; petals none; calyx tube turbinate, constricted at 

 the throat, four- winged, four-lobed, the lobes petallike, concave and 

 deciduous; stamens four, their filaments long and white. 



In swamps and low meadows, sometimes in bogs, Newfoundland to 

 Michigan, south to Georgia. Flowering from July to September or even 

 later. 



