Agrimonia rostellata

Wallroth

Beitr. Bot. 1: 42. 1842.

EndemicIllustrated
Synonyms: Eupatorium rostellatum (Wallroth) Nieuwland
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 316. Mentioned on page 313, 314.

Herbs, 4–10 dm. Roots: tubers fusiform. Stems with glistening stipitate-glandular hairs and hirsute (hairs stiff, sparse to scattered, erect, 1–2 mm). Leaves: mid cauline stipules ± falcate to ± 1/2-ovate, margins often deeply incised; major leaflets 3–11 (mid cauline 5–7), minor 0–1 (–2) pairs; major leaflet blades obovate to broadly elliptic to elliptic, terminal largest, largest of these 3.4–10.5 × 1.7–5.6 cm, margins serrate, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface glistening with sessile-glandular hairs (often shining) and hirsute (hairs sparse to scattered, 1 mm). Inflorescences: axes glistening with sessile-glandular hairs and ± ascending-hirsute (hairs stiff, sparse to scattered, 0.5–1 mm). Flowers ± alternate. Fruiting hypanthia hemispheric, 1–3.1 × 1.8–3.9 mm, obscurely sulcate, hooked bristles in 2–3 circumferential rows, proximal row spreading to ± 90°, usually glistening with sessile-glandular hairs.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–mid Sep.
Habitat: Edges, open spaces, and thickets, deciduous or mixed deciduous woods
Elevation: 0–1100 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Kans., Ky., La., Md., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Pa., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va., Wis.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Agrimonia rostellata"
acute;obtuse +
Genevieve J. Kline +  and Paul D. Sørensen +
Wallroth +
ascending-hirsute +
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. +, Ark. +, Conn. +, Del. +, D.C. +, Fla. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Kans. +, Ky. +, La. +, Md. +, Mich. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, N.C. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Pa. +, S.C. +, Tenn. +, Tex. +, Va. +, W.Va. +  and Wis. +
not +  and aggregated +
0–1100 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 +
Edges, open spaces, and thickets, deciduous or mixed deciduous woods +
straight +
stipitate-glandular +
obtriangular +, orbicular +, ellipsoid +, top--shaped +, urceolate +, ovoid +, obconic +  and hemispheric +
compound +, simple +  and 9-120-flowered +
crassinucellate +
persistent +
3.4 cm34 mm <br />0.034 m <br /> (10.5 cm105 mm <br />0.105 m <br />) +
largest +  and major +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> (5.6 cm56 mm <br />0.056 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 Jul–mid Sep. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
Beitr. Bot. +
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 +
1 +  and 5 +
deciduous +
distinct +
basal +, lateral +, subterminal +  and terminal +
not elongate +
Eupatorium rostellatum +
Agrimonia rostellata +
Agrimonia +
species +
inconspicuous +
enlarged +  and small +
fusiform +