This section is from the book "How To Know The Wild Flowers", by Frances Theodora (William Starr Dana). Also available from Amazon: How To Know The Wild Flowers.
Stems. - Ascending, branched at the summit, white, woolly. Leaves. - Divided into five wedge-oblong, deeply incised leaflets, which are green above, white with silvery wool, beneath.
The silvery cinquefoil has rather large yellow flowers which are found in dry fields throughout the summer as far south as New Jersey.
 
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