Flowers:
Multi-Colored (Very showy terminal panicles of flowers with white petals, each with reddish-yellow marks at inner petal bases; spring)
Foliage:
Green (Coarse dark-green palmately compound (7 leaflets) foliage in summer); Brown (Fall color sometimes yellow, but usually more brown and poor)
Fruit:
Green (Prickly capsule in the fall; poisonous if ingested, containing 3-5% saponins)
Soil:
Widely adaptable to soils, except those that are very dry
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Opposite, palmately compound leaves usually have 7 sessile, serrate leaflets (4-10" long by 2-5" wide) with a rusty tomentose on the bottom. Petiole is 3-5" long. Huge shield-shaped leaf scars. Large sticky terminal buds are reddish-brown.
