Agrimonia

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Rosaceae

• Scientific Name

  Agrimonia

• Description

  Genus Description - Hypanthium obconic to hemispheric, armed above with hooked bristles, becoming indurate and 10-grooved at maturity; sep spreading at anthesis, later incurved at base and connivent above, forming a beak on the fr; pet 5, yellow, small; stamens 5–15; ovaries 2, concealed within the hypanthium, ripening into achenes; style terminal; perennial herbs from stout rhizomes, the 3–many large lfls of the pinnately compound lvs interspersed with much smaller ones; stipules foliaceous, usually deeply toothed or laciniate; fls in a long, interrupted, spike-like raceme, the short peduncle subtended by a laciniate bract, the very short pedicels by a pair of 3-lobed bractlets. All our spp. fl July–Sept. 15, N. Temp.

• Common Names

  agrimony, harvest-lice