Beaked Grooveburr

Agrimonia rostellata Walir. Beitr. Bot. 1: 42. 1842
Agrimonia Eupatoria glabra Muhl. (Cat. 47; hyponym. 1813); W. Barton, Fl. Phila. Prodr. 53.
1815. Agrimonia parvijiora vSerjnge, in DC. Prodr. 2: 588. 1825. Not A. parvijiora Soland. 1789. Agrimonia Eupatoria parvijiora Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 197. 1832. Agrimonia americana Lucae; Wallr. Beitr. Bot. 1: 43, as synonym. 1842. Agrimonia striata Bickn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 512. 1896. Not A. striata Michx. 1803.
Perennial, with a short rootstock and more or less tuberousthickened roots; stem slender, 2-10 dm. high, branched above, glandular-granuliferous and sparingly hirsute with slender spreading hairs; stipules lanceolate to semi-cordate, usually small, seldom 1 cm. wide, deeply incised or the lower entire; petiole and the rachis of the leaves slender, glabrous or with scattered hairs; principal leaflets 3-9, usually obovate or oval, 2-10 cm. long, subsessile, thin, glabrous or nearly so, glandular-granuliferous beneath, acute or obtuse at both ends, serrate with broadly ovate teeth; interposed leaflets usually a single pair in each of the intervals or lacking'; inflorescence usually branched; peduncles slender, merely glandular-granuliferous; racemes short, loosely flowered; pedicels 2-5 mm. long, ascending; bracts minute, ciliate; sepals lanceolate-ovate, acute, 1.5 mm. long; petals elliptic, 2-3 mm. long, pale-yellow; fruiting hypanthium 2 mm. long, hemispheric, glandular-granuliferous, with low and rounded ribs and shallow grooves, almost without a rim; bristles slender, 1-1.5 mm. long, in about 3 series, erect or ascending, only the lowest somewhat spreading.
Type locality: Pennsylvania.
Distribution: Wooded hillsides, from Connecticut to Georgia, Alabama, and Kansas.