Alchemilla alpina |
Alchemilla micans |
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alpine lady's mantle |
gleaming lady's mantle |
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Habit | Plants dwarfed, green to dark green, carpet-forming, 5–20 cm, rarely taller. | Plants medium-sized, dark green, often somewhat sericeous (abaxial surface of leaves), sometimes reddish brown, especially on exposed distal part of stems and inflorescences, to 50 cm. |
Stems | appressed- to ascending-hairy. |
usually densely spreading- to slightly ascending-hairy, usually glabrous in distal 1/2. |
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, strongly wine red-tinged proximally, lobes pale green, sometimes suffused wine red; petiole densely spreading- or slightly ascending-hairy (especially in distal 1/3); blade usually reniform to orbiculate, 7–9-lobed, margins flat, sometimes slightly undulate, basal sinuses relatively wide or narrow, basal lobes not overlapping, middle lobes rounded, as long as to longer than their half-widths, to as long as wide and with straight sides; incisions usually absent or relatively short; teeth usually slightly connivent, almost symmetric to ± asymmetric, apex acute, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout, internerve regions uniformly or irregularly hairy, adaxial densely appressed-hairy throughout. |
Inflorescences | primary branches densely appressed-hairy. |
primary branches often sparsely, sometimes densely, ascending-hairy; peduncles glabrous or hairy. |
Pedicels | usually shorter than hypanthia, densely appressed-hairy. |
glabrous or some of the proximal hairy. |
Flowers | epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 or less times sepals; hypanthium densely pubescent; sepals erect after flowering. |
dark green, often becoming reddish; epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5+ times sepals (narrower); hypanthium attenuate at base, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy (in proximal flowers). |
Achenes | not exserted. |
not exserted. |
Alchemilla alpina |
Alchemilla micans |
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Phenology | Flowering mid Jun–mid Sep. | Flowering late May–Sep. |
Habitat | Meadows, herb slopes, moist rock ledges | Meadows, moist sand |
Elevation | 0–500(–1000) m (0–1600(–3300) ft) | 0–400 m (0–1300 ft) |
Distribution |
NF; SPM; Greenland; Europe |
ME; NY; NF; NS; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | In the flora area, Alchemilla alpina is possibly introduced except in Greenland. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Alchemilla micans has been widely known as A. gracilis Opiz; the type of that name is referable to A. monticola, a species that the original description also fits better. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 305. | FNA vol. 9, p. 308. |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 123. (1753) | Buser: Bull. Herb. Boissier 1(app. 2): 28. (1893) |
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