The flowers have pale red to yellowish stalks, white with yellow or pinkish tinged corollas about 3/4 inches long. Historically, plant at Eloise Butler have bloomed as early as April 7 and as late as May 6. The inflorescence is an erect leafless raceme, held above the leaves, (actually, a scape - the above ground flowering stem rising from the root) that has 3 to 14 stalked nodding flowers, which droop away from the stalk as the scape bends slightly over. The leaves die back in mid-summer after the seed is formed. The leaflet tip has an abrupt sharp point. Leaves are basal, yellow-green to grayish-green above, grayish-green under, smooth, and pinnately divided several times, on long stalks, which are round, and green to pale reddish-brown in color. Dutchman's Breeches is a native perennial herbaceous plant, growing from 4 to 12 inches high to the top of the erect flower stalks.
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