WorldFloraDB - Agrimonia gryposepala

Characteristics

Herbs, 3.5–15 dm. Roots: tubers absent. Stems with glistening stipitate-glandular hairs and hirsute (hairs scattered, erect, 2 mm). Leaves: mid cauline stipules ± 1/2-ovate, margins incised; major leaflets 3–9 (mid cauline 5–7), minor 1–4, rarely 0–1, pairs; major leaflet blades ovate to elliptic or rhombic, terminal largest, largest of these 2.4–10.5 × 1.4–5.6 cm, margins serrate, apex acute, sometimes acuminate, abaxial surface usually with glistening stipitate-glandular hairs and hirsute (hairs scattered, 0.5–2 mm). Inflorescences: axes with glistening stipitate-glandular hairs and hirsute (hairs erect, 2 mm). Flowers usually ± alternate. Fruiting hypanthia turbinate to broadly campanulate, rarely broadly obconic, 2.3–5.8 × 2.8–6.2 mm, deeply to sometimes obscurely sulcate, hooked bristles in 4–5 circumferential rows, proximal row reflexed, with glistening stipitate-glandular hairs and sparsely hirsute. 2n = 56.

More

Roots fibrous; stem stout, 5–15 dm, glandular and ± long-hirsute; stipules large and foliaceous, semicordate, 1–2 cm wide; principal lfls of the larger lvs 5–9, lance-ovate to elliptic or obovate, coarsely and often bluntly serrate, glabrous or nearly so above, beneath conspicuously glandular, sparsely hirsute chiefly or wholly on the veins; axis of the infl glandular, also hirsute with long spreading hairs; pedicels hirsute; hypanthium glandular only, or with a few short stiff hairs below, 3–5 mm at maturity, expanded above; bristles numerous in several rows; 2n=56. Moist or dry open woods; Me. to Ont. and Mont., s. to N.J., Ind., Kans., and in the mts. to Tenn. and N.C.; also in Calif. and N.M.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

1.65 - 1.8

Root system

fibrous-root

Rooting depth (meter)

0.2

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	medicinal
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	Basket Medicine (flower), Blood Medicine (root), Dermatological Aid (root), Dietary Aid (root), Gastrointestinal Aid (root), Pediatric Aid (root), Basket Medicine (root), Hemostat (root), Urinary Aid (root), Antidiarrheal (unspecified), Febrifuge (unspecified), Gynecological Aid (unspecified), Antiemetic (unspecified), Emetic (unspecified), Other (unspecified), Pediatric Aid (unspecified), Hemostat (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-35
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-