Flora of North America species comparison

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Alchemilla glabra

alchémille glabre, smooth lady's mantle
Habit Plants medium-sized to occasionally very large, yellowish grass green to dark green, often reddish brown on exposed parts of stems and petioles.
Stems

glabrous or appressed-hairy proximally, glabrous distally.
Leaves

stipules translucent, usually suffused with red proximally, translucent to pale green distally, lobes pale green;

petiole glabrous or sparsely to densely appressed-hairy;

blade reniform-orbiculate, 7–9(–11)-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses narrow or wide, middle lobes as long as to longer than their half-widths, rounded to triangular-ovate;

incisions absent;

teeth ± connivent, slightly concave near apex, strongly asymmetric, apex subacute or obtuse, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout or in distal 1/2 only, internerve regions glabrous, adaxial glabrous or slightly hairy near margins, rarely (late-season leaves) hairy on folds.
Inflorescences

primary branches glabrous.
Pedicels

glabrous.
Flowers

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times sepals (narrower);

hypanthium glabrous.
Achenes

exserted from discs.

Alchemilla glabra
Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Meadows
Elevation 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; NB; NF; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 305.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Alchemilla
Sibling taxa
A. alpina, A. filicaulis, A. glaucescens, A. glomerulans, A. micans, A. mollis, A. monticola, A. subcrenata, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Synonyms A. alpestris, A. vulgaris var. alpestris, A. vulgaris var. grandis
Name authority Neygenfind: Ench. Bot., 67. (1821)
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