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Alchemilla glomerulans

alchémille à glomérules, cluster lady's mantle
Habit Plants medium-sized, grass green or glaucous, often becoming reddish orange when young changing to dark brownish especially on margins of leaves and flowers (young flowers are yellowish), often coarse, 30–40 cm.
Stems

appressed-hairy throughout (hairs becoming looser and ± ascending distally).
Leaves

stipules translucent to pale green, appearing brownish upon drying;

petiole thickly, usually densely appressed-hairy throughout, rarely glabrous or sparsely hairy (on spring leaves);

blade reniform to orbiculate, 7–9-lobed, margins undulate, basal sinuses narrow, middle lobes equal to longer than their half-widths;

incisions absent;

teeth: sometimes proximal sides at least slightly connivent, slightly concave near apex, slightly asymmetric, apex subobtuse to acute, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout, internerve regions ± hairy throughout, adaxial light to grass green, sometimes glaucous, margins and folds usually turning reddish orange, sparsely to densely appressed-hairy throughout or only on folds.
Inflorescences

primary branches densely appressed- to ascending-hairy;

peduncles appressed- to ascending-hairy or glabrous.
Pedicels

mostly glabrous or some of the proximal hairy.
Flowers

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times to almost equal to sepals (narrower);

hypanthium glabrous or sparsely appressed-hairy (on proximalmost flowers).
Achenes

not exserted.

Alchemilla glomerulans
Phenology Flowering late Jun–Sep.
Habitat Moist herb slopes, willow scrub
Elevation 0–500 m (0–1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
LB; QC; Greenland; Europe
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

In contrast to Alchemilla wichurae, A. glomerulans occurs throughout the southern (unglaciated) portion of Greenland.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 305.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Alchemilla
Sibling taxa
A. alpina, A. filicaulis, A. glabra, A. glaucescens, A. micans, A. mollis, A. monticola, A. subcrenata, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Synonyms A. obtusa, A. obtusa var. comosa, A. pseudomicans, A. vulgaris var. comosa
Name authority Buser: Bull. Herb. Boissier 1(app. 2): 30. (1893)
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