Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.

Habitat: Moist, waste places.

Flowers: May-August

Origin: Introduced from Europe

Growth Duration: Annual, Biennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, flies, wasps, beetles

Annual, stems decumbent to erect, 1-5 dm, soft-hairy.

Leaves simple, 1.5-5 cm broad, palmately divided into 7 wedge-shaped segments, segments typically 3-lobed, blade round in outline, somewhat hairy.

Inflorescence 2-flowered; flowers radial, on pedicels 6-16 mm; sepals 5, 3-4.5 mm, not ridged, mucronate or with short awns, not bristle-tipped; petals 2-3 mm, somewhat notched or shallowly lobed, light pinkish violet; stamens 10, 5 fertile; stylar column 7-9 mm, stigmas 0.5-0.7 mm.

Mericarps 5, 1.7-1.9 mm, smooth, covered sparsely with short stiff hairs; seeds finely net-veined.