Wildflowers Identified: Early Meadow-Rue

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Early Meadow-Rue has these characteristics:

• 4 petals
  
• 5 petals
  
• irregular petals: lipped, lopsided, not symmetrical
  
• cluster or spike of flowers (a spike is a long cluster, with the flowers along the stem)
  
• 1/8 of an inch or less flower width
  
• whitish flower color
  
• yellow to orange flower color
  
• brownish or greenish flower color
  
• blue to purple flower color
  
• blooms in April or earlier
  
• blooms in May
  
• plant height one foot to two feet
  
• plant height two feet or more
  
• leaf petiole present (has a leafstalk)
  
• leaf petiole absent (has no leafstalk)
  
• alternate leaf arrangement on the stem
  
• irregular leaf edge
  
• branched leaf veins
  
• compound leaves are trifoliate - three leaflets radiating from a point
  
• compound leaves are pinnate - leaflets arranged along a midrib
  

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