Alchemilla pratensis

Alchemilla pratensis F. W. Schmidt, Fl. Boem. 3 : 88. 1794
Alchemilla vulgaris I,. Sp. PI. 123, in part. 1753. —Lam, Fl. Fr. 3 : 303. 1778.
Perennial, with a strong rootstock ; stems several, 3-5 dm. high, hirsute with spreading hairs ; basal leaves long-petioled ; stipules brown, scarious, pubescent or glabrate ; petioles 0.5-3 dm. long, hirsute with spreading hairs ; leaf-blades orbicular or rounded-reniform, 5-13 cm. broad, plicate, glabrous and light-green above, slightly glaucous and appressedpubescent beneath, with 9-11 rounded lobes, which have on each side 9-12 obliquely ovate teeth somewhat directed forward ; stipules of the stemleaves comparatively small, connate, rounded, toothed ; stem-leaves subsessile, reniform ; inflorescence openly cymose, manyflowered; pedicels divergent, equaling or longer than the flowers, which are rather small, yellowish ; hypanthium at first obconic, in fruit more urceolate, glabrous, acute at the base, about 1 mm, long; bractlets and sepals glabrous, about 1.5 mm. long, acute, the former lanceolate, the latter ovate.
Type locality : Bohemia.
Distribution : Temperate Kurope ; in America introduced and naturalized from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts.