15 cm ruler for scale

Erect perennial, single stemmed or sometimes branching above. Leaves are alternate, pinnate, with up to 16 leaflets. Leaf highlighted above was 20 cm long (including petiole) and 9 cm wide. End leaflet measured to 6.5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide. Yellow flowers spikes appear in mid July. Flowers measured at 9 mm in diameter, flowr spikes measured to 6 cm long. Stems and bottom of leaves pubescent with long hairs, top of leaves covered in short hairs.

Habitat is open woods and roadsides in the parkland and boreal forest. Fairly common.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 80 cm, we measured plants to 122 cm tall.

Took the above photos July 12th in the Porcupine Hills, 450 km northeast of Regina, SK, and July 21st, along a pathway in boreal forest at Duck Mountain Provincial Park 300 km north east of our home in Regina, SK.

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