• (Cassini) Fernald
  

• Gall-of-The-Earth
• Lion's Foot
  
• Rattlesnake Root
  

GROWTH FORM: Dicot-herb

1. LEAF ARRANGEMENT:reduced outer involucral bracts lanceovate to ovate
   
2. LEAF TYPE: glabrous above, paler & sometimes hairy underneath
   
3. LEAF MARGIN: "lower ones are long-petioled, pinnately,or palmately few-lobed
   
4. LEAF VENATION: pinnate
   
5. LEAF SHAPE & SIZE: Highly Variable
   
6. INOFLORESCENCE:nodding heads
   
7. FLOWER MEROUS: 9-13
   
8. FLOWER COLOR: white, yellowish, sometimes purple
   
9. NUTLETS 5-6mm long
   
10. PAPPUS yellowish tan, 6-7mm long
    
11. OUTER BRACTS triangular-ovate (out standing characteristic that most sets trifoliolata apart from other species of Prenanthes)
    

• Pine Mixed Hardwoods
  
• Mixed Hardwoods
  
• Bottomland Woods

The natural history for trifoliolata is mostly unfounded: trifoliolata can be seen late summer to fall. Its growth habit is herbaceous forb or herb. It is a perennial plant that particularly likes sandy soil. Prenanthes trifoliolata is a species found to grow at a high density occupying from 50 to 91% and 27 to 75% of the ground cover studied along the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The flowers on the plant are often purplish and generally found with minute white, waxy appearing paillae that may also have black-dots. Flowers for this species are from 9 to 13, colored white or grayish, and sometimes found as a pale lavender.

Trifoliolata can be found along wooded slopes and road banks of eastern states from Maine to Georgia. It is often found along the coast of NC, and in the mountains of NC, TN, and North GA.