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Agrimonia parviflora W. Aiton. Common name: Southern Agrimony, Harvestlice. Phenology: Jul-Sep; Jul-Oct. Habitat: Marshes, bottomland forests, wet pastures. Distribution: CT west to s. MI and SD, south to FL, TX, the West Indies and Mexico.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, F, FNA9, G, GrPl, Il, K4, Mi, NcTx, NE, NS, NY, Pa, POWO, RAB, S, S13, Tat, Tn, Tx, Va, W, Kline & Sørensen (2008), Robertson (1974). Basionym: Agrimonia parviflora Aiton 1789

Links to other floras: = Agrimonia parviflora - FNA9

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW
  • Great Plains: FACW
  • Midwest: FACW
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FAC

Heliophily ⓘ: 6

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect perennial of marshes, bottomland forests and wet pastures.

Stems: Stems stout, unbranched, very hairy and covered with tiny, glistening glands.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with 2-toothed, fan-shaped stipules at the base; to 18 in. long, pinnately divided into 7-19 lance-shaped, toothed leaflets that alternate on the hairy rachis with much smaller leaflets; hairy and copiously gland-dotted beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in an elongated, glandular-hairy, terminal spike (there may be 1 or 2 shorter racemes in upper leaf axils); yellow, less than 1/4 in. wide, with 5 spreading, oblong-oval petals attached to the rim of a ribbed, cup-shaped structure (ovary fused with calyx), and a central tuft of 5-7 stamens.

Fruits: Fruit a ridged, top-shaped achene bearing hooked bristles.

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Height: 2 1/2-6 ft.

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description: Erect perennial of marshes, bottomland forests and wet pastures.

stems: Stems stout, unbranched, very hairy and covered with tiny, glistening glands.

leaves: Leaves alternate, on petioles with 2-toothed, fan-shaped stipules at the base; to 18 in. long, pinnately divided into 7-19 lance-shaped, toothed leaflets that alternate on the hairy rachis with much smaller leaflets; hairy and copiously gland-dotted beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in an elongated, glandular-hairy, terminal spike (there may be 1 or 2 shorter racemes in upper leaf axils); yellow, less than 1/4 in. wide, with 5 spreading, oblong-oval petals attached to the rim of a ribbed, cup-shaped structure (ovary fused with calyx), and a central tuft of 5-7 stamens.

fruits: Fruit a ridged, top-shaped achene bearing hooked bristles.

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