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Alchemilla alpina

Alchemilla mollis

alpine lady's mantle

garden lady's mantle, lady's-mantle, soft lady's-mantle
Habit Plants dwarfed, green to dark green, carpet-forming, 5–20 cm, rarely taller. Plants large to very large, yellowish green, to 80 cm, often very robust, densely hairy, hairs patent, soft.
Stems

appressed- to ascending-hairy.

densely spreading-hairy (to inflorescences).
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, usually pale pink proximally, lobes turning brownish;

blade orbiculate or reniform-orbiculate, 9–11-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses narrow to almost closed, basal lobes sometimes overlapping, middle lobes with lateral sides convex or slightly concave at base, shorter than to as long as their half-widths;

incisions absent;

teeth slightly connivent or not, ± symmetric, apex acute or subacute, surfaces densely hairy throughout.
Inflorescences

primary branches densely appressed-hairy.

primary branches densely hairy;

peduncles pubescent or almost glabrous.
Pedicels

usually shorter than hypanthia, densely appressed-hairy.

glabrous.
Flowers

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 or less times sepals;

hypanthium densely pubescent;

sepals erect after flowering.

epicalyx bractlet lengths 1 times sepals (as wide), often with blunt teeth, glabrous;

epicalyx bractlets and sepals patent after flowering, giving appearance of an 8-point star;

hypanthium usually densely, occasionally sparsely, hairy (in proximal 1/2).
Achenes

not exserted.

exserted from discs (distinctly longer than hypanthia).

Alchemilla alpina

Alchemilla mollis
Phenology Flowering mid Jun–mid Sep. Flowering late Jul–Sep.
Habitat Meadows, herb slopes, moist rock ledges Densely vegetated lake shores
Elevation 0–500(–1000) m (0–1600(–3300) ft) 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NF; SPM; Greenland; Europe
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from FNA
BC; ON; Europe (e Carpathians); w Asia (Caucasus, Turkey) [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.)
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 305. FNA vol. 9, p. 309.
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. glaucescens, A. glomerulans, A. micans, A. monticola, A. subcrenata, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Synonyms A. acutiloba var. mollis
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 123. (1753) (Buser) Rothmaler: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 33: 347. (1934)
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