Agrimony
Scientific name: Agrimonia eupatoria L.
Diagnostic features
Stems ± erect, to 1m, diffusely branched, pubescent with long and short non-glandular hairs.
Main leaflets 3-6 pairs, rather bluntly serrate, with absent to rather few sessile shining glands on lowerside.
Fruiting hypanthium obconical, deeply grooved ± to apex, with outermost bristles patent to erecto-patent.
Chromosome number: 2n=28.
Habitat
Native; grassy places in fields and hedgerows.
Distribution
Throughout British Isles except most of North Scotland.
This species is keyed out on Page 2250: Agrimonia in the Text Key.
Hybrids
- Agrimonia x wirtgenii Asch. & Graebn. (= Agrimonia eupatoria x Agrimonia procera) is intermediate in indumentum (glands and hairs) and leaflet toothing; it does not form fruit. Chromosome number: 2n=42. It was found in the late 1940s in South Northumb, but other records have not been confirmed cytologically. |
