Alchemilla transiens

Alchemilla transiens is a low perennial herb of the Rosaceae belonging to the lady's-mantle group. It forms a tufted clump from a stout woody rootstock, producing slender, often hairy stems. The long-petioled basal leaves are rounded to kidney-shaped in outline and palmately lobed into seven to nine shallow, toothed lobes, the surfaces and margins bearing fine hairs; like other Alchemilla the leaf surface readily holds beads of dew and rain. The small flowers are inconspicuous, yellowish-green, and lack petals, the floral parts consisting of four sepals and an equal number of epicalyx segments; they are grouped in loose terminal cymose clusters. Reproduction is largely apomictic, a feature responsible for the very large number of closely similar microspecies in the genus. It grows in montane and subalpine grassland, meadows, and rocky slopes, part of the Eurasian Alchemilla vulgaris aggregate.