Agrimonia incisa

Torrey & A. Gray

Fl. N. Amer., 430. 1840.

EndemicIllustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 314.

Herbs, 3–11 dm. Roots: tubers fusiform, thickened. Stems with glistening sessile-glandular hairs and ± matted-pubescent to villous and hirsute (hairs scattered, erect, stiff, 2–3 mm). Leaves: mid cauline stipules ± falcate, margins dentate; major leaflets 3–15 (mid cauline 9), minor 1–3 pairs; major leaflet blades ± obovate, terminal largest, largest of these 2.3–4.1 × 1–1.7 cm, margins incised, apex obtuse to acute, abaxial surfaces glistening with sessile-glandular hairs and pubescent to villous and sparsely hirsute (hairs stiff, 2 mm). Inflorescences: axes often with glistening sessile-glandular hairs and pubescent to villous and hirsute (hairs stiff, erect, 2 mm). Flowers usually ± alternate. Fruiting hypanthia hemispheric to turbinate, 1.5–2.7 × 1.8–3.3 mm, obscurely sulcate, hooked bristles in 3–4 circumferential rows, proximal row spreading 45–90°, glistening with sessile-glandular hairs (often yellow).


Phenology: Flowering late Jul–Nov.
Habitat: Dry to moist, longleaf pine-oak woods, oak-hickory slopes, roadsides, sand or shell maritime thickets
Elevation: 0–200 m

Distribution

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Ala., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., Mo., S.C., Tex.

Discussion

Populations of Agrimonia incisa are infrequent and usually widely scattered within the limited range (15–20 currently known). The plants are sometimes abundant where they occur.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"thin" is not a number.

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hirsute +, pubescent +  and villous +
obtuse;acute +
Genevieve J. Kline +  and Paul D. Sørensen +
Torrey & A. Gray +
hirsute +, pubescent +  and villous +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
few-toothed +, entire +, less narrowly obovate +  and more or less narrowly elliptic +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (22 cm220 mm <br />0.22 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
free +  and distinct +
annular +
Ala. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, La. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, S.C. +  and Tex. +
not +  and aggregated +
0–200 m +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and aggregated +
hemispheric +  and obconic +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.66 cm6.6 mm <br />0.0066 m <br />) +
sessile +  and short-stipitate +
Dry to moist, longleaf pine-oak woods, oak-hickory slopes, roadsides, sand or shell maritime thickets +
straight +
obtriangular +, orbicular +, ellipsoid +, top--shaped +, urceolate +, ovoid +, obconic +  and hemispheric +
compound +, simple +  and 9-120-flowered +
crassinucellate +
persistent +
2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br /> (4.1 cm41 mm <br />0.041 m <br />) +
largest +  and major +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
few-toothed +  and entire +
inferior +  and superior +
clustered +, biseriate +  and superposed +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
free +  and distinct +
obovate;more or less oval +
Flowering late Jul–Nov. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
Fl. N. Amer., +
slender +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
erect +  and spreading +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Endemic +  and Illustrated +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
ascending +  and erect +
hirsute;less matted-pubescent;villous +
1 +  and 5 +
deciduous +
distinct +
basal +, lateral +, subterminal +  and terminal +
not elongate +
Agrimonia incisa +
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species +
inconspicuous +
enlarged +  and small +
fusiform +