Alchemilla cymatophylla

Alchemilla cymatophylla is a perennial herb of the rose family belonging to the Alchemilla vulgaris (lady's-mantle) aggregate, native to montane meadows, grassy slopes and damp pastures of Europe. It forms a low clump arising from a stout woody rootstock, with long-stalked, rounded to kidney-shaped leaves that are shallowly lobed and toothed, often softly hairy, with the characteristic pleated, fan-like folding that gives the genus its appeal. The leaf surface famously holds beads of dew or guttation water along its margins. Tiny yellowish-green flowers, lacking showy petals, are massed in loose, branching cymes held above the foliage in summer. Reproduction in this group is largely apomictic (asexual seed formation), which has produced numerous closely similar microspecies such as this one.