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.
Color, white. Stem, stout, smooth, round, 3 to 6 feet high. Leaves, palmately veined and cut, sometimes 6 inches across, the lower ones with petioles, the upper sessile, smaller, triangular, square at the base. Late summer.
New Jersey southward and westward. In rich woods and prairies.
C. suaveolens. - This is a plant of lower growth (highest 5 feet), with triangular-shaped, pointed, toothed leaves, the stem leaves with winged petioles. August and September.
A rare growth of rich woods from Connecticut west and south.
 
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