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alchémille glabre, smooth lady's mantle

Habit Plants small, gray-green, to 20 cm. Plants medium-sized to occasionally very large, yellowish grass green to dark green, often reddish brown on exposed parts of stems and petioles.
Stems

densely ascending-spreading-hairy, sometimes sericeous.

glabrous or appressed-hairy proximally, glabrous distally.

Leaves

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.

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 sericeous;

peduncles sericeous.

primary branches glabrous.

Pedicels

sericeous.

glabrous.

Flowers

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times as sepals (narrower);

hypanthium sericeous.

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times sepals (narrower);

hypanthium glabrous.

Achenes

not or exserted to 1/20 from discs.

exserted from discs.

Alchemilla glaucescens

Alchemilla glabra

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug. Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Waste ground Meadows
Elevation 0–50 m (0–200 ft) 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
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from FNA
AK; NB; NF; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

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. 308. FNA vol. 9, p. 305.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Alchemilla Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Alchemilla
Sibling taxa
A. alpina, A. filicaulis, A. glabra, A. glomerulans, A. micans, A. mollis, A. monticola, A. subcrenata, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
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 Wallroth: Linnaea 14: 134. (1840) Neygenfind: Ench. Bot., 67. (1821)
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