Hairy lady's mantle

Alchemilla monticola

Family: Rosaceae Genus: Alchemilla Species: monticola

Synonyms: Alchemilla pastoralis, Alchemilla pastoralis f. vegeta, Alchemilla vulgaris subsp. palmata, Alchemilla vulgaris subsp. pastoralis, Alchemilla sylvestris var. pastoralis, Alchemilla pastoralis f. praticola, Alchemilla pastoralis f. media-hirsutiflora, Alchemilla pastoralis f. truncata, Alchemilla pratensis var. pastoralis, Alchemilla pastoralis var. subpastoralis, Alchemilla monticola var. subpastoralis, Alchemilla pastoralis f. longiloba, Alchemilla pastoralis f. breviloba-hirsutiflora, Potentilla pastoralis, Alchemilla monticola var. hungarica, Alchemilla pastoralis f. media-glabriflora, Alchemilla pastoralis f. media, Alchemilla pastoralis f. breviloba-glabriflora, Alchemilla pastoralis f. breviloba, Alchemilla pastoralis f. adpressepilosa, Alchemilla pastoralis f. aprica, Alchemilla hungarica, Alchemilla intermedia subsp. sooi, Alchemilla vulgaris subsp. monticola, Alchemilla palmata subsp. pastoralis, Alchemilla vulgaris var. pastoralis, Alchemilla monticola f. adpressepilosa, Alchemilla vulgaris var. silvestris, Alchemilla pascualis

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Botanical Description

Alchemilla monticola, the hairy lady’s mantle, is a herbaceous perennial in the family Rosaceae belonging to the taxonomically complex apomictic Alchemilla vulgaris aggregate. It grows from a stout, woody rhizome to about 20–50 cm tall, forming a tuft of long-stalked, kidney-shaped to circular leaves with seven to eleven shallow, broadly rounded, finely toothed lobes; both surfaces, and especially the leaf stalks, are conspicuously clothed in spreading hairs, the feature that gives the species its common and scientific names. Tiny yellow-green flowers without true petals are borne in airy, branched cymose clusters held above the foliage from June to August, followed by small one-seeded achenes enclosed in the persistent hairy hypanthium. The species’ native range extends from Europe across temperate Asia to Siberia and central China, where it grows in moist meadows, pastures, woodland edges and montane grasslands. Like other members of the lady’s mantle complex, the leaves catch beaded drops of dew along their toothed margins.

Native Region: Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krasnoyarsk, Netherlands, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Tuva, Ukraine, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia

Cultural & Historical Context

Traditional American Uses

None Documented

Chemistry & External Identifiers

Trefle ID

265912

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