Flora of North America species comparison

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Alchemilla alpina

Alchemilla glaucescens

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

appressed- to ascending-hairy.

densely ascending-spreading-hairy, sometimes sericeous.
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.

stipules translucent, colorless, sometimes flushed pale wine red proximally, green distally, lobes green;

blade orbiculate, rather shallowly 7–9-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses closed, middle lobes rounded, as long as to slightly longer than their half-widths;

incisions usually absent or relatively short, sometimes relatively long;

teeth slightly connivent, slightly asymmetric, apex subacute or almost digitate, surfaces densely hairy.
Inflorescences

primary branches densely appressed-hairy.

primary branches sericeous;

peduncles sericeous.
Pedicels

usually shorter than hypanthia, densely appressed-hairy.

sericeous.
Flowers

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 or less times sepals;

hypanthium densely pubescent;

sepals erect after flowering.

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times as sepals (narrower);

hypanthium sericeous.
Achenes

not exserted.

not or exserted to 1/20 from discs.

Alchemilla alpina

Alchemilla glaucescens
Phenology Flowering mid Jun–mid Sep. Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Meadows, herb slopes, moist rock ledges Waste ground
Elevation 0–500(–1000) m (0–1600(–3300) ft) 0–50 m (0–200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NF; SPM; Greenland; Europe
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from FNA
QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
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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.)

In the flora area, Alchemilla glaucescens is known only from Grosse-Ile in the St. Lawrence River.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 305. FNA vol. 9, p. 308.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Alchemilla 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
A. alpina, A. filicaulis, A. glabra, A. glomerulans, A. micans, A. mollis, A. monticola, A. subcrenata, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 123. (1753) Wallroth: Linnaea 14: 134. (1840)
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