Flowers:
Yellow (Very showy upright clusters of bright yellow flowers with red centers in the summer)
Foliage:
Red-Violet (Red-purple emerging foliage in the spring); Green (Bright green summer foliage); Yellow (Warm yellow fall foliage)
Fruit:
Green (Fall; papery, 3-valved-capsule (bladder-like) seed pods that start tan and turn darker into winter)
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves alternate and compound (pinnate and bipinnate) to 14" long, irregularly crenate-serrate. Large clusters of bladder-like fruit. Shield-shaped leaf scars. Olive-buff to light brown stems.
