Agrimonia striata Michx.

Herbs, 4–13 dm. Roots: tubers absent. Stems with ± glistening stipitate-glandular hairs and pubescent to pilose (at least distally) and hirsute (hairs scattered, erect, 2 mm, stiff). Leaves: mid cauline stipules ± falcate, margins proximally dentate or entire; major leaflets 3–11 (mid cauline 5–7), minor 1–4 pairs; major leaflet blades elliptic to rhombic, terminal largest, largest of these 4.3–10.7 × 1.9–4.2 cm, margins serrate, apex acute to acuminate or long-acuminate, abaxial surface with glistening glandular hairs (stipitate and sessile) and pubescent to pilose and hirsute (hairs stiff, scattered, 1–2 mm, densest along major veins). Inflorescences: axes with stipitate-glandular hairs and pubescent to pilose and hirsute (hairs stiff, scattered, proximally ± erect and 1–2 mm to distally ± ascending and 1 mm). Flowers usually ± subopposite. Fruiting hypanthia obconic to ± campanulate, rarely turbinate, 2.1–6.6 × 2.4–5.2 mm, deeply sulcate, hooked bristles in 3–4 circumferential rows, proximal row spreading ± 90º (pressed upward on dried specimens), stipitate-glandular hairs, ± glistening, ?grooves strigose, ridges usually sparingly hirsute (sepal bases usually pubescent along rim)?. 2n = 56.

Thickets and roadsides.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.