OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Agrimonia pubescens   FAMILY Rosaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agrimonia pubescens   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Agrimonia pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)

Agrimonia pubescens

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Agrimonia bicknellii

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Agrimonia pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-09-005a:

Agrimonia pubescens var. pubescens   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Agrimonia bicknellii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Agrimonia pubescens

 

COMMON NAME:
Downy Agrimony


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image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_agmo3_001_lvd

        

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

JK Marlow    jkm170826_761

August    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

JK Marlow    jkm170826_762

August    Spartanburg County    SC

0-3 pair(s) of minor leaflets between major, per Weakley's Flora (2020).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE pinnately compound leaves of forbs

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

Roxanna Martin    rlm82310_48

August    Spartanburg County    SC

Can be distinguished by densely pubescent stem & leaves' velvety undersides, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

Roxanna Martin    rlm82310_58

August    Spartanburg County    SC

Hypanthium with several rows of hooked bristles enclosing the single nutlet, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

Roxanna Martin    rlm82310_60

August    Spartanburg County    SC

Hypanthium turbinate to hemispheric, ribbed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

Roxanna Martin    rlm8310_12

August    Spartanburg County    SC

Flowers are disposed along slender wand-like racemes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

Roxanna Martin    rlm8310_16

August    Spartanburg County    SC

Flowers of Agrimonia species are mostly 1/4" or less in diameter, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

Roxanna Martin    rlm8310_17

August    Spartanburg County    SC

Stem stout. Leaflets coarsely serrate to crenate, pubescent beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Agrimonia pubescens, Downy Agrimony

Roxanna Martin    rlm92309_016

September    Spartanburg County    SC

Stipules are toothed but not deeply, half-ovate to half-round, per Weakley's Flora.

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Agrimonia pubescens   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agrimonia pubescens   FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Agrimonia pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 9
Agrimonia pubescens

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agrimonia bicknellii

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Agrimonia pubescens

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-09-005a:
Agrimonia pubescens var. pubescens   FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agrimonia bicknellii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agrimonia pubescens

 

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1999

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially in base-rich soils, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Odd-pinnately compound: 5-9(11) major leaflets
Alternate
Stipules are prominent.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals
10 stamens (approximately)

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Nutlet

 

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