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Scientific name:

Alchemilla alpina

Vernacular name:

Lady's-mantle, Alpine


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Alpine Lady's-mantle

Scientific name: Alchemilla alpina L.

Diagnostic features
Stems to 20cm, ascending.
Leaves palmate or almost so, with 5-7 narrowly oblong-elliptic leaflets, green and glabrous on upperside, densely silver-silky-pubescent on lowerside.

Chromosome number: (2n=c.120, c.128, c.140, c.152).

Habitat
Native; grassland, scree and rock-crevices on mountains.

Distribution
Lake District, Central & North Scotland, Kerry and Co Wicklow, introduced in Derbys.

This species is keyed out on Page 2229 in the Text Key.

Alchemilla alpina
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