Agrimonia pubescens Wallroth. Common name: Downy Agrimony. Phenology: Jul-Sep; Aug-Oct. Habitat: Dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially in base-rich soils. Distribution: ME west to MI and SD, south to NC, GA, and OK.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, F, FNA9, G, GrPl, Il, K4, Mi, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, Tat, Tn, Va, Kline & Sørensen (2008); = Agrimonia pubescens Wallr. var. pubescens — RAB; > Agrimonia bicknellii (Kearney) Rydb. — S, Robertson (1974); > Agrimonia mollis (Torr. & A.Gray) Britton var. bicknellii Kearney — S13; > Agrimonia mollis (Torr. & A.Gray) Britton var. mollis — S13; > Agrimonia pubescens Wallr. — S, W, Robertson (1974). Basionym: Agrimonia pubescens Wallr. 1842
Links to other floras: = Agrimonia pubescens - FNA9
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Heliophily ⓘ: 5
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Horticultural Information
Intro: Erect perennial of dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially in base-rich soils.
Stems: Stems usually solitary, stout, sometimes with a few branches, covered with long and short hairs.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with 2-toothed, lance-shaped stipules at the base; pinnately divided into 5-13 large (2-3 in. long), toothed, lance-shaped to elliptic leaflets, interspersed with pairs of much smaller but similar-shaped leaflets; the rachis is hairy, and leaflets are rough or sparsely hairy above and velvety-hairy beneath (not gland-dotted).
Inforescence:
Flowers: Flowers spaced along an elongated, hairy, terminal spike (there may be 1 or 2 shorter racemes in upper leaf axils), yellow, about ¼ in. wide, with 5 spreading, oblong petals attached to the rim of a slightly hairy, ribbed, cup-shaped structure (ovary fused with calyx), and a central tuft of about 10 stamens.
Fruits: Fruit a ridged, top-shaped achene bearing hooked bristles and eventually nodding.
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Height: 1-4 ft.
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description: Erect perennial of dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially in base-rich soils.
stems: Stems usually solitary, stout, sometimes with a few branches, covered with long and short hairs.
leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with 2-toothed, lance-shaped stipules at the base; pinnately divided into 5-13 large (2-3 in. long), toothed, lance-shaped to elliptic leaflets, interspersed with pairs of much smaller but similar-shaped leaflets; the rachis is hairy, and leaflets are rough or sparsely hairy above and velvety-hairy beneath (not gland-dotted).
inflorescence:
flowers: Flowers spaced along an elongated, hairy, terminal spike (there may be 1 or 2 shorter racemes in upper leaf axils), yellow, about ¼ in. wide, with 5 spreading, oblong petals attached to the rim of a slightly hairy, ribbed, cup-shaped structure (ovary fused with calyx), and a central tuft of about 10 stamens.
fruits: Fruit a ridged, top-shaped achene bearing hooked bristles and eventually nodding.
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