Wildflowers Identified: Cut-Leaved Toothwort

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Cut-Leaved Toothwort has these characteristics:

• 4 petals
  
• several flowers on stem
  
• cluster or spike of flowers (a spike is a long cluster, with the flowers along the stem)
  
• 3/8 to 5/8 inches flower width
  
• 5/8 to 1 inch flower width
  
• whitish flower color
  
• pink to red flower color
  
• blue to purple flower color
  
• blooms in April or earlier
  
• blooms in May
  
• blooms in June
  
• plant height one foot or less
  
• plant height one foot to two feet
  
• leaf petiole present (has a leafstalk)
  
• opposite one another leaf arrangement on the stem
  
• arrangement of leaves on stem is whorled (three or more from a point)
  
• leaf edge has at least 4 teeth per inch
  
• irregular leaf edge
  
• deeply cut leaf edge
  
• branched leaf veins
  
• compound leaves are palmate - leaflets or lobes fan from one point
  
• stem is hairy or spiny
  

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