Hairy lady's-mantle

Alchemilla filicaulis, commonly known as slender lady's mantle or hairy lady's mantle, is a tufted perennial herb in the family Rosaceae native to the cooler regions of Europe, including the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Alps and parts of central and eastern Europe, where it grows in damp upland pastures, hay meadows, stream banks and montane grasslands. The plant forms loose clumps 10 to 40 centimetres tall arising from a stout woody rootstock, with slender, ascending, often weakly trailing stems clothed in spreading silky hairs especially toward the base, a useful character to distinguish it from glabrous-stemmed relatives in the A. vulgaris aggregate. The basal leaves are long-petioled and orbicular to reniform in outline, 3 to 8 centimetres across, palmately shallowly divided into seven to nine rounded, regularly serrate lobes, with a soft pubescence on the petioles and lower surfaces; characteristic dewdrops collect on the funnel-shaped lamina in damp weather. The inflorescence is a loose, open cyme of many small yellowish-green four-sepalled flowers about 3 to 4 millimetres across; petals are absent. The fruits are small achenes enclosed by the persistent hypanthium and dispersed apomictically.