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alchémille subcrénelée, broadtooth lady's mantle, lady's-mantle, round-tooth lady's-mantle

Habit Plants medium-sized, sometimes larger, yellowish green to dark green, often reddish brown especially on stems, petioles, and inflorescence branches, to 50 cm.
Stems

densely spreading- to slightly reflexed-pubescent or only sparsely so in distal 1/2.

Leaves

stipules translucent, sometimes wine red-tinged proximally, lobes green;

petiole sparsely to densely spreading- to reflexed-hairy;

blade reniform to orbiculate, 7–9-lobed, margins strongly plicate to undulate, basal sinuses closed, basal lobes overlapping (in plants from spring-flooded habitats, only cauline leaves with wide sinus may persist), middle lobes usually longer than their half-widths, as long as wide, longer than wide (with ± straight sides);

incisions absent;

teeth: proximal sides connivent or slightly so, sometimes slightly concave near apex, slightly to strongly asymmetric, apex subobtuse to obtuse, abaxial surface grass green to dark green, nerves hairy throughout, internerve regions irregularly or uniformly hairy, adaxial densely spreading-hairy throughout or only on margins and folds.

Inflorescences

primary branches sparsely to densely hairy;

peduncles glabrous or sparsely hairy.

Pedicels

glabrous.

Flowers

green, often becoming reddish brown;

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times sepals (narrower);

hypanthium glabrous.

Achenes

exserted to 1/3 from discs.

Alchemilla subcrenata

Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Moist grasslands, flood plains
Elevation 0–1400 m (0–4600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
MT; BC; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 306.
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. monticola, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Name authority Buser: Scrinia Fl. Select. 12: 285. (1893)
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