Family: Rosaceae
grooved agrimony, roadside agrimony
Merel R. Black
Caroline A. Creevey
University of Wisconsin - Madison (WIS-VP)
Etymology: Agrimonia: possibly from Greek argema, an eye-disease, because of supposed medicinal value
Plants: erect, perennial, up to 40"+ tall forb; stems stout, hairy
Leaves: once pinnately-divided into 7-11 large leaflets with smaller leaflet in-between, the upper 5 large leaflets usually pointing forward, toothed, smooth above, glandular below
Flowers: yellow, 5-parted, short-stalked, densely crowded; inflorescence a spike-like, interrupted cluster (raceme) on a stalk with dense hairs; blooms July-Aug.
Fruits: dry seed with hooked prickles in a rounded cluster
Habitat: dry to moist; woods
Conservation Status: Native
Plants: erect, perennial, up to 40"+ tall forb; stems stout, hairy
Leaves: once pinnately-divided into 7-11 large leaflets with smaller leaflet in-between, the upper 5 large leaflets usually pointing forward, toothed, smooth above, glandular below
Flowers: yellow, 5-parted, short-stalked, densely crowded; inflorescence a spike-like, interrupted cluster (raceme) on a stalk with dense hairs; blooms July-Aug.
Fruits: dry seed with hooked prickles in a rounded cluster
Habitat: dry to moist; woods
Conservation Status: Native
Forests of maple, pine, white cedar-balsam fir, sugar maple-hemlock, maple-aspen, hemlock-hardwoods, mixed conifers; swamps of white cedar-black ash, black ash-silver maple. Also on clay bluffs, along roadsides and railroads, thickets, meadows, powerline rights-of-way, prairies, along ponds and streams, sedge meadows. This species is mostly restricted to the northern third of the state with outlying populations in the northern portion of the Driftless Area.
- pincipal leaflets 5–7(-9)
- axis of inflorescence not conspicuously glandular, if glands present then sparse and hidden by pubescence
- bristles of floral tube ascending to erect
- grooves of floral tube with a line of hairs
- leaves not velvety pubescent below, smooth or scabrous to the touch
- stipules of mid-cauline leaves with a prolonged lanceolate terminal tooth or lobe
Floristic Rating: Coefficient of Conservatism = 3, Wetland Indicator = FAC- USDA Plants Database: Federal Distribution and detailed information including photos Southwest School of Botanical Medicine: Britton & Brown Illustrated Flora - 2nd Edition (1913) "An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada"
Merel R. Black
Caroline A. Creevey
Emmet J. Judziewicz
