Common Lady's-mantle - Alchemilla xanthochlora
Other Names:
Intermediate Lady's Mantle, Yellow-green Lady's Mantle,
Alchemilla monticola, Alchemilla vulgaris
Long-hairy, rhizomatous perennial. Stems ascending, 15–50 cm. Leaves short-petiolate; the blades orbicular, cordate, 3–8 cm wide, with 7 to 9 serrate lobes; stipules fan-shaped, dentate, to 15 mm long. Inflorescence a bracteate, paniculate cyme. Flowers 4-merous, perigynous; hypanthium obconic, 1–2 mm long, pilose; sepals ca. 1.5 mm long, spreading, alternating with bracteoles; petals absent; stamens 4; pistil 1. Fruit a solitary ovoid achene ca. 2 mm long, enclosed in the hypanthium (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Lesica (2012) treats this as
Alchemilla vulgaris.