glabrous

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Glabrous throughout; leaflets 5–9, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, often wedge-shaped at the base and serrate above, bright green both sides; fruit much as in n. 2.—Along streams; common.—Intermediate forms occur with paler leaves somewhat pubescent beneath.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Glabrous, smooth, in the sense of having no hairs, bristles, or other pubescence.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

C. verticillàta, L. Glabrous; leaves divided into 3 sessile leaflets which are 1–2-pinnately parted into narrowly linear or filiform divisions.—Damp soil, from Ont. and Mich. to Md., Ark., and southward.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Glabrous; or the young shoots and foliage slightly silky; or sometimes pubescent, or hirsute, with procumbent ascending, or erect stems of one to three feet.

From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest

Glabrous, leafy, 2–5° high; leaves oblong, sinuate-pinnatifid and spinulosely dentate, ciliate; heads in an open panicle; involucre more imbricate; flowers yellow.—Minn.,

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa