Alchemilla glomerulans

Alchemilla glomerulans, the clustered lady's mantle, is a low, tufted perennial herb in the rose family (Rosaceae), native to arctic and subarctic regions of Europe, Greenland and North America, and to high mountain ranges of central Europe and the northern Cordillera. It typically grows 10–35 cm tall from a stout, branching rhizome and a basal rosette of long-petioled leaves. The leaf blades are reniform to suborbicular, 2–5 cm across, shallowly to moderately seven- to nine-lobed, with each lobe broadly rounded and finely serrate; the upper surface is sparsely hairy while the lower surface and petioles are densely silky-pilose. Numerous small, yellowish-green flowers, each 3–4 mm across, are borne in dense, glomerulate cymes at the tips of slender, hairy flowering stems in summer; the flowers lack petals, with four sepals and four sepal-like epicalyx segments. The species reproduces apomictically and is characteristic of moist montane meadows, streamsides, and snowbed communities.