Agrimonia pubescens Wallr.

Agrimonia bicknellii (Kearney) Rydb.; Bickn. Bull. Torrey
Club 38: 450. 1911.
Agrimonia mollis var. Bickn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 517. 1896. Agrimonia mollis Bicknellii Kearney, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 565. 1897.
Perennial, with a short rootstock and tuberous-thickened roots; stem strict, leafy, with ascending branches above, finely and densely villous-pubescent, almost canescent, and with scattered long ascending hairs; stipules semicordate, cut-toothed with ovate teeth, the largest 1 cm. wide; petioles and rachis of the leaves canescent and with longer ascending hairs; principal leaflets 7-13, dark-green and rather densely hispidulous or in* age glabrate above, grayishvelvety beneath, rarely if at all glandular-granuliferous, acute at both ends or obtusish at the apex, 1-8 cm. long, coarsely toothed with broadly ovate teeth, the terminal leaflet rhombicoblanceolate, sessile or short-stalked and then often lobed at the base, the lateral ones lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, sessile; interposed leaflets small, a single pair in each interval, entire or 3-toothed; peduncles finely canescent, 1-3 dm. long; raceme lax; bracts and bractlets very small, entire or narrowly 3-cleft; pedicels very short and erect; sepals about 1 mm. long, ovate, acute, strongly 3-nerved; petals rather pale-yellow, elliptic, about 2 mm. long; fruiting hypanthium turbinate, acute at the base, strongly ribbed, 3 mm. long, with a more or less developed rim, slightly strigose below; bristles in 3-4 series, the inner 2-3 mm. long, ascending, the outer shorter and spreading.
Type locality: Neighborhood of Wolf Creek, eastern Tennessee.
Distribution: Southern Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Tennessee.

Agrimonia pubescens Walir. Beitr. Bot. 1: 45. 1842
Agrimonia Eupatoria mollis T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 431. 1840. Agrimonia parvijlora Kinn; Wallr. Beitr. Bot. 1: 45, as synonym. 1842. Agrimonia mollis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 19: 221. 1892.
Perennial, with a short rootstock and tuberous-thickened roots ; stem 31 5 dm. high, usually with ascending branches, finely and densely pubescent with often crisp hairs and also sparingly hirsute with longer ascending hairs; stipules variable, the lower often lanceolate and entire, the upper semi-cordate, sometimes 1 cm. broad, coarsely toothed with ovate or triangular teeth; petiole and rachis of the leaves densely pubescent; principal leaflets 5-7 (rarely 9), dark-green and sparingly hirtellous or glabrate above, densely and velvety pubescent, rarely if at all glandular-granuliferous beneath, coarsely toothed with triangular-ovate teeth, 2-10 cm. long, the terminal one usually short-stalked, obovate, from rounded to acute at the apex, acute at the base, the lateral ones obovate to elliptic or oval, the lowest pair smallest; interposed leaflets usually small, often entire, a single pair in each interval and often in the distal intervals only; peduncles finely and densely pubescent, 1-4 dm. long; racemes lax; bracts narrowly 3-cleft, as well as the bractlets small; pedicels 1-5 mm. long, erect and appressed; sepals 1.5 mm. long, ovate, acute or obtusish, scarcely glandular-granuliferous; petals deep-yellow, obovate, 1.5 mm. long; fruiting hypanthium turbinate or campanulate, 2.5-3 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, deeply grooved, glabrous or with scattered hairs, acute at the base; rim small or obsolete; bristles in three series, 1-2 mm. long, erect or ascending.
Type locality: North America.
Distribution: Dry open woods, from New York and Ontario to Georgia, Arkansas, Kansas, and Minnesota.

Agrimonia pubescens blooming near Pittsburgh

Agrimonia pubescens, the soft agrimony or downy agrimony, is a flowering plant in the genus Agrimonia, a member of the rose family. It grows in dry areas and woodlands.