Scientific name: Alchemilla xanthochlora Rothm.

Description
Habit: Perennial, hairless on the upperside of leaves and the flowers, all the other parts hairy.
Stems: Erect.
Leaves: Mostly basal, stalked, with leafy stipules; up to 12 cm across, palmately divided into 7-9 lobes, lobes rounded, each lobe with 13-19 teeth.
Flowers: Yellow-greenish, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, numerous in terminal cymes on a hairless pedicel; calyx of 4 sepals and bracts; petals absent; stamens 4, attached to the top of the ovary or rim of calyx-tube; with hypanthium; carpel 1, deeply in the calyx tube.
Fruits: An achene, enclosed in the dry hypanthium.

Habitat: Grassland and scrub. Distribution: Very frequent in parts of the Burren, rare elsewhere.

Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No

Family Rosaceae
Genus Alchemilla
Species Alchemilla xanthochlora

Scientific synonyms and common names

Lady's Mantle [English]
Bratóg Mhuire [Gaeilge]

Stace, C. (1997) New Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press, The Bath Press, UK.

Webb, D. A. and M. J. P. Scannell (1983) Flora of Connemara and the Burren. Royal Dublin Society and Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Webb, D. A., J. Parnell and D. Doogue (1996) An Irish Flora. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk.

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