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Alchemilla alpina

Alchemilla venosa

alpine lady's mantle

cluster lady's-mantle, vein lady's mantle
Habit Plants dwarfed, green to dark green, carpet-forming, 5–20 cm, rarely taller. Plants medium-sized, darkish green, sometimes reddish tinged, to 40 cm.
Stems

appressed- to ascending-hairy.

± appressed-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.

stipules green or slightly purplish tinged, turning brown;

blade orbiculate, 7–9-lobed, margins undulate, basal sinuses appearing closed, basal lobes overlapping, middle lobes rounded, as long as or longer than their half-widths;

incisions relatively short to long;

teeth ± connivent, slightly asymmetric, apex acute, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout, internerve regions glabrous or densely hairy throughout, adaxial glabrous or hairy only on folds.
Inflorescences

primary branches densely appressed-hairy.

primary branches densely hairy;

peduncles hairy or 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 equal to slightly longer than sepals (usually almost as wide);

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

hypanthium usually shorter than sepals, glabrous.
Achenes

not exserted.

exserted from discs (distinctly longer than hypanthia).

Alchemilla alpina

Alchemilla venosa
Phenology Flowering mid Jun–mid Sep. Flowering late Jun–Aug.
Habitat Meadows, herb slopes, moist rock ledges Grasslands, often near sea shores
Elevation 0–500(–1000) m (0–1600(–3300) ft) 0–50 m (0–200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NF; SPM; Greenland; Europe
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
NB; NF; NS; sw Asia (Caucasus, e Turkey) [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
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. mollis, A. monticola, A. subcrenata, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 123. (1753) Juzepczuk: in A. A. Grossheim, Fl. Kavkaza 4: 328. (1934)
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