Growth Form: Upright, unbranched
 
Plant Characteristics:
 
Grows 12-40" tall and 24-36" wide.
 
Needs full sun.
 
Prefers dry to average, well-drained soils.
 
Blooms June-July with a cluster of whitish-yellow, five-parted flowers less than an inch wide.
 
Light green, long mostly basal leaves, pinnately compound with seven to 11 leaflets, white sticky hairs.
 
Wildlife Value:
Host plant for larvae of the dorcas copper and purple copper butterflies. Visitors include eastern pine elfin; yellow-faced, mining, small carpenter, and solitary bees; metallic green halictids; two-moon beewolf; syrphid flies; and ants. Some larvae form galls with insects that mine the leaves, including cinquefoil stem gall midge, cinquefoil axil gall wasp, and Douglas moth.
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