Flora of North America species comparison

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Alchemilla alpina

alpine lady's mantle
Habit Plants dwarfed, green to dark green, carpet-forming, 5–20 cm, rarely taller.
Stems

appressed- to ascending-hairy.
Leaves

stipules translucent, quickly turning brownish;

blade ± orbiculate, palmately compound, leaflets 5–7, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, apices with 7–11 teeth, margins flat, abaxial surface sericeous, adaxial shiny, glabrous.
Inflorescences

primary branches densely appressed-hairy.
Pedicels

usually shorter than hypanthia, densely appressed-hairy.
Flowers

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 or less times sepals;

hypanthium densely pubescent;

sepals erect after flowering.
Achenes

not exserted.

Alchemilla alpina
Phenology Flowering mid Jun–mid Sep.
Habitat Meadows, herb slopes, moist rock ledges
Elevation 0–500(–1000) m (0–1600(–3300) ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NF; SPM; Greenland; Europe
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Discussion

In the flora area, Alchemilla alpina is possibly introduced except in Greenland.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 305.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Alchemilla
Sibling taxa
A. filicaulis, A. glabra, A. glaucescens, A. glomerulans, A. micans, A. mollis, A. monticola, A. subcrenata, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 123. (1753)
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