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Alchemilla subcrenata

Alchemilla alpina

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

alpine 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. Plants dwarfed, green to dark green, carpet-forming, 5–20 cm, rarely taller.
Stems

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

appressed- to ascending-hairy.
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.

stipules translucent, quickly turning brownish;

blade ± orbiculate, palmately compound, leaflets 5–7, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, apices with 7–11 teeth, margins flat, abaxial surface sericeous, adaxial shiny, glabrous.
Inflorescences

primary branches sparsely to densely hairy;

peduncles glabrous or sparsely hairy.

primary branches densely appressed-hairy.
Pedicels

glabrous.

usually shorter than hypanthia, densely appressed-hairy.
Flowers

green, often becoming reddish brown;

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times sepals (narrower);

hypanthium glabrous.

epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 or less times sepals;

hypanthium densely pubescent;

sepals erect after flowering.
Achenes

exserted to 1/3 from discs.

not exserted.

Alchemilla subcrenata

Alchemilla alpina
Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep. Flowering mid Jun–mid Sep.
Habitat Moist grasslands, flood plains Meadows, herb slopes, moist rock ledges
Elevation 0–1400 m (0–4600 ft) 0–500(–1000) m (0–1600(–3300) ft)
Distribution
from FNA
MT; BC; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
NF; SPM; Greenland; Europe
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

In the flora area, Alchemilla alpina is possibly introduced except in Greenland.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 306. 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. glaucescens, A. glomerulans, A. micans, A. mollis, A. monticola, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
A. filicaulis, A. glabra, A. glaucescens, A. glomerulans, A. micans, A. mollis, A. monticola, A. subcrenata, A. venosa, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Name authority Buser: Scrinia Fl. Select. 12: 285. (1893) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 123. (1753)
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