Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Agrimonia pubescens
FAMILY
Rosaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Downy Agrimony at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agrimonia pubescens
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_agmo3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm170826_761
August Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm170826_762
August Spartanburg County SC
0-3 pair(s) of minor leaflets between major, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
COMPARE
pinnately compound leaves of forbs
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Roxanna Martin rlm82310_48
August Spartanburg County SC
Can be distinguished by densely pubescent stem & leaves' velvety undersides, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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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.
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Roxanna Martin rlm82310_60
August Spartanburg County SC
Hypanthium turbinate to hemispheric, ribbed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Roxanna Martin rlm8310_12
August Spartanburg County SC
Flowers are disposed along slender wand-like racemes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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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.
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Roxanna Martin rlm8310_17
August Spartanburg County SC
Stem stout. Leaflets coarsely serrate to crenate, pubescent beneath, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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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 (5/21/15):
Agrimonia pubescens
FAMILY
Rosaceae
(?)
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agrimonia pubescens
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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
1999
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in SC Mtns) (rare in SC Pdmt) (rare in Coastal Plain)
Look for it in dry to moist forests and woodlands, especially in base-rich soils, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
...Dry
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p264
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p115
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p069