Alchemilla xanthochlora |
Alchemilla glabra |
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yellow-green lady's mantle |
alchémille glabre, smooth lady's mantle |
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Habit | Plants large, yellowish green to green, rarely with reddish orange leaf margins, robust, compact often with rather rigid stems, 40–60 cm. | Plants medium-sized to occasionally very large, yellowish grass green to dark green, often reddish brown on exposed parts of stems and petioles. |
Stems | usually densely spreading-hairy, sometimes sparsely in distal 1/2. |
glabrous or appressed-hairy proximally, glabrous distally. |
Leaves | stipules translucent, colorless proximally, lobes green, quickly turning brownish; petiole thickly, densely pubescent (hairs patent or, when not fully developed, slightly ascending); blade reniform to orbiculate, 7–11-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses wide, basal lobes not overlapping, middle lobes equal to longer than their half-widths and rounded, or as long as wide and straight-sided; incisions usually absent, sometimes relatively short; teeth sometimes proximal sides at least slightly connivent, side slightly concave near apex, usually slightly, sometimes markedly, asymmetric, apex acute to subobtuse, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout, internerve regions uniformly or irregularly hairy throughout, adaxial yellowish to light green, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy on teeth, margins, and folds or on some folds only. |
stipules translucent, usually suffused with red proximally, translucent to pale green distally, lobes pale green; petiole glabrous or sparsely to densely appressed-hairy; blade reniform-orbiculate, 7–9(–11)-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses narrow or wide, middle lobes as long as to longer than their half-widths, rounded to triangular-ovate; incisions absent; teeth ± connivent, slightly concave near apex, strongly asymmetric, apex subacute or obtuse, abaxial surface with nerves hairy throughout or in distal 1/2 only, internerve regions glabrous, adaxial glabrous or slightly hairy near margins, rarely (late-season leaves) hairy on folds. |
Inflorescences | primary branches densely hairy; peduncles sparsely hairy or glabrous. |
primary branches glabrous. |
Pedicels | glabrous or some of the proximal rarely sparsely hairy. |
glabrous. |
Flowers | epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times to almost equal to sepals (narrower); hypanthium usually glabrous or sparsely hairy (on proximalmost flowers). |
epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times sepals (narrower); hypanthium glabrous. |
Achenes | exserted 1/3 from discs. |
exserted from discs. |
Alchemilla xanthochlora |
Alchemilla glabra |
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Phenology | Flowering late May–Sep. | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Moist meadows, herb slopes, willow scrub, ditches, lawns | Meadows |
Elevation | 0–50 m (0–200 ft) | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) |
Distribution |
NB; NS; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America] |
AK; NB; NF; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Alchemilla xanthochlora was recognized by P. A. Rydberg (1908–1918) and M. L. Fernald (1950) as A. pratensis attributed to F. W. Schmidt, as typical A. vulgaris Linnaeus by M. L. Fernald and K. M. Wiegand (1912), and as A. vulgaris var. vulgaris by B. Boivin (1966b). Actually, Schmidt published a varietal name [A. vulgaris var. pratensis F. W. Schmidt, A. pratensis (F. W. Schmidt) Opiz], which does not apply to this species nor does A. vulgaris. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 306. | FNA vol. 9, p. 305. |
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Synonyms | A. alpestris, A. vulgaris var. alpestris, A. vulgaris var. grandis | |
Name authority | Rothmaler: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 42: 167. (1937) | Neygenfind: Ench. Bot., 67. (1821) |
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