Flora of North America species comparison

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Alchemilla monticola

alchémille des montagnes, hairy lady's-mantle, mountain alchemilla
Habit Plants medium-sized, grass green, young inflorescences yellowish, often becoming reddish brown, 25–30(–40) cm, often robust.
Stems

densely spreading-hairy in distal 1/2.
Leaves

stipules translucent to pale green proximally, apex green;

blade reniform or reniform-orbiculate, rather shallowly 7–9-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses wide or narrow, basal lobes not overlapping, middle lobes rounded, equal to longer than their half-width;

incisions usually relatively short, sometimes absent or relatively long;

teeth usually slightly connivent, mostly slightly asymmetric but a few strongly so, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces densely pubescent throughout, adaxial gray green to dark green.
Inflorescences

primary branches densely hairy;

peduncles sparsely hairy or glabrous.
Pedicels

glabrous or some of the proximal hairy.
Flowers

green, often becoming reddish;

epicalyx bractlet lengths at least 0.5 times sepals (not longer, always narrower);

hypanthium rounded at base, usually sparsely to densely spreading-hairy, rarely glabrous.
Achenes

exserted 1/5 from discs.

Alchemilla monticola
Phenology Flowering late May–Sep.
Habitat Meadows, lawns, ditches, under trees
Elevation 0–3000 m (0–9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CT; MA; ME; MT; NH; NM; NY; VT; WI; BC; NF; NS; ON; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
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Source FNA vol. 9, p. 308.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Alchemilla
Sibling taxa
A. alpina, A. filicaulis, A. glabra, A. glaucescens, A. glomerulans, A. micans, A. mollis, A. subcrenata, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Synonyms A. pastoralis, A. vulgaris var. pastoralis
Name authority Opiz: in F. Berchtold et al., Oekon.-techn. Fl. Böhm. 2(1): 13. (1838)
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