Alchemilla baltica

Alchemilla baltica is a perennial herb of the rose family (Rosaceae), one of the many microspecies within the lady's mantle aggregate (Alchemilla vulgaris sensu lato). Like others in the group, it forms a low rosette of long-stalked, rounded to kidney-shaped, palmately lobed leaves with toothed margins, the foliage often softly hairy and famously holding glistening beads of dew or guttation water at its centre. Small, inconspicuous yellowish-green flowers lacking petals are borne in branched clusters on slender stems in summer; like most Alchemilla, it reproduces apomictically (setting seed without fertilisation), which accounts for the proliferation of stable microspecies. It grows in damp grassland, meadows, woodland margins and other moist habitats across northern and eastern Europe and the Baltic region.