This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Family, Parsley. Color, deep yellow. Flowers, in compound umbels, large and handsome. The fruit, maturing in August or September, is pedicelled, angled, with styles present. Leaves, those from the root heart-shaped, toothed; those on the stem 3-divided, the leaflets roundish or ovate, serrate. Stem, smooth and stout. Summer.
Open woods and thickets in Middle and Southern States.
 
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