Flower:

Branching clusters at the top of the plant, with 2 or 3 stalked flowers clustered at the tips of branches. Flowers are about 1/8-inch across, bell to saucer-shaped, with 5 white petals and a yellow-tipped stamen opposite each petal. Sepals are narrowly triangular, nearly as long as the petals and densely covered in a mix of long, white hairs and shorter glandular hairs.

Leaves and stems:

Leaves are basal and alternately attached along the stem, the blades up to 1 inch long. Basal leaves are numerous, in a tight rosette, divided at the tip into 3 main sections which are further divided into linear-oblong lobes. Lower leaves are long stalked, becoming less divided and shorter stalked as they ascend the stem with leaves in the flowering branches mostly stalkless. Basal and lower leaves often wither by fruiting time but the dried remains may persist.

Leaves and stems are covered in a mix of long, white hairs and shorter, glandular hairs. Stems are single or occasionally multiple from the base, branched in the upper plant, and often tinged red.

Fruit:

Fruit is a tiny, dry, oval seed.

Notes:

More common in the Great Plains to our west, Nuttall's Groundrose is most often found in Minnesota in our northwest counties along the sparsely vegetated beach ridges of Glacial Lake Agassiz. It is easy to ID from its branching clusters of small white flowers, densely hairy, divided leaves, and the glandular hairs. In some references it is listed as Chamaerhodos nuttallii or C. erecta subsp. nuttallii.