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cluster lady's-mantle, vein lady's mantle

Habit Plants medium-sized, darkish green, sometimes reddish tinged, to 40 cm.
Stems

± appressed-hairy.

Leaves

stipules green or slightly purplish tinged, turning brown;

blade orbiculate, 7–9-lobed, margins undulate, basal sinuses appearing closed, basal lobes overlapping, middle lobes rounded, as long as or longer than their half-widths;

incisions relatively short to long;

teeth ± connivent, slightly asymmetric, apex acute, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout, internerve regions glabrous or densely hairy throughout, adaxial glabrous or hairy only on folds.

Inflorescences

primary branches densely hairy;

peduncles hairy or glabrous.

Pedicels

glabrous.

Flowers

epicalyx bractlet lengths equal to slightly longer than sepals (usually almost as wide);

epicalyx segments and sepals patent after flowering, giving appearance of an 8-point star;

hypanthium usually shorter than sepals, glabrous.

Achenes

exserted from discs (distinctly longer than hypanthia).

Alchemilla venosa

Phenology Flowering late Jun–Aug.
Habitat Grasslands, often near sea shores
Elevation 0–50 m (0–200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NB; NF; NS; sw Asia (Caucasus, e Turkey) [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 309.
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. subcrenata, A. wichurae, A. xanthochlora
Name authority Juzepczuk: in A. A. Grossheim, Fl. Kavkaza 4: 328. (1934)
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