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

Habitat: Disturbed ground, lawns and gardens.

Flowers: April-September

Origin: Introduced from central and eastern North America

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, butterflies

Perennial from widespread, slender, fleshy rhizomes, the stems to 5 dm. tall, erect to prostrate, pubescent to glabrous.

Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, trifoliate; leaflets 1-5 cm. long, obcordate, drooping, usually glabrous; stipules lacking.

Flowers 2-7, long pedicellate, on axillary peduncles that exceed the leaves; sepals 5; petals 5, yellow, 4-9 mm. long; stamens 10, united at the base, 5 filaments longer than the other 5; styles 5.

Capsule 5-celled, sparsely hairy.