Agrimonia pubescens

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Rosaceae

Trees , shrubs , or herbs, deciduous or evergreen . Stems erect , scandent , arching , prostrate , or creeping , armed or unarmed . Buds usually with several exposed scales , sometimes with only 2. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or compound ; stipules paired , free or adnate to petiole , rarely absent, persistent or deciduous; petiole usually 2-glandular apically; leaf blade often serrate at margin , rarely entire. Inflorescences various, from single flowers to umbellate , corymbose , racemose or cymose-paniculate. Flowers usually actinomorphic , bisexual , rarely unisexual and then plants dioecious. Hypanthium (formed from basal parts of sepals, petals, and stamens) free from or adnate to ovary, short or elongate . Sepals usually 5, rarely fewer or more, imbricate; epicalyx segments sometimes also present. Petals as many as sepals, inserted below margin of disk, free, imbricate, sometimes absent. Disk lining hypanthium, usually entire, rarely lobed . Stamens usually numerous , rarely few, always in a complete ring at margin of or above disk; filaments usually free, very rarely connate ; anthers small, didymous , rarely elongate, 2-locular. Carpels 1 to many, free, or ± connate and then adnate to inner surface of cupular receptacle; ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or superior; ovules usually 2 in each carpel, rarely 1 or several, anatropous , superposed . Styles as many as carpels, terminal , lateral , or basal, free or sometimes connate. Fruit a follicle, pome, achene, or drupe, rarely a capsule, naked or enclosed in persistent hypanthium and sometimes also by sepals. Seeds erect or pendulous, sometimes winged , usually exalbuminous , very rarely with thin endosperm; cotyledons mostly fleshy and convex abaxially, rarely folded or convolute.

Between 95 and 125 genera and 2825-3500 species: cosmopolitan , mostly in N temperate zone; 55 genera (two endemic) and 950 species (546 endemic) in China.

Many plants of this family are of economic importance and contribute to people s livelihoods. The Rosaceae contain a great number of fruit trees of temperate regions . The fruits contain vitamins, acids, and sugars and can be used both raw and for making preserves, jam, jelly, candy, various drinks, wine, vinegar, etc. The dried fruits of the genera

Amygdalus and Armeniaca are of high commercial value. Some plants in the genus Rosa containing essential oils or with a high vitamin content are used in industry . Rosaceae wood is used for making various articles, stems and roots are used for making tannin extract, and young leaves are used as a substitute for tea. Numerous species are used for medical purposes or are cultivated as ornamentals .

The Rosaceae are very well represented in China, with great economic and scientific importance. The Co-chairs of the Editorial Committee (Wu and Raven) here note that the patterns of relationship are complex and the group is taxonomically difficult. [1]

Genus Agrimonia

Herbs perennial , tall, with creeping rhizome. Leaves stipulate , imparipinnate . Flowers usually in terminal , spikelike racemes , bisexual , rather small. Hypanthium turbinate , sulcate , with hooked prickles or 5 teeth below limb abaxially, constricted at throat . Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent . Petals 5, larger than sepals. Disk lining hypanthium, margin thickened, annular , glandular . Stamens 5-15 or more, inserted at mouth of hypanthium, 1-seriate. Carpels usually 2, included in hypanthium, sessile; ovule pendulous; style terminal, exserted, filiform ; stigma dilated . Achenes 1 or 2, included in closed hypanthium, distally with hooked prickles. Seed pendulous; testa membranous. x = 7.

About ten species: N temperate zone, alpine regions of tropics; four species in China.[2]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,092 meters (0 to 3,583 feet).[3]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Agrimonia bicknellii (Kearney) Rydb. • Agrimonia mollis (Torr. & A. Gray) Britton

Notes

Publishing author : Wallr. Publication : Beitr. Bot. (Wallr.) i. 45 1842

Similar Species

Members of the genus Agrimonia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. eupatoria (Agrimony) · A. eupatoria eupatoria (Churchsteeples) · A. eupatoria var. glabra (Agrimony) · A. eupatoria var. hirsuta (Agrimony) · A. eupatoria var. mollis (Agrimony) · A. eupatoria var. suaveolens (Agrimony) · A. gryposepala (Tall Hairy Groovebur) · A. incisa (Incised Agrimony) · A. microcarpa (Small-Fruited Agrimony) · A. parviflora (Harvestlice) · A. procera (Cocklebur) · A. pubescens (Bicknell's Grovebur) · A. repens (Creeping Agrimony) · A. rostellata (Beaked Agrimony) · A. striata (Roadside Agrimony)

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Further Reading

• Annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of New York state, by Homer D. House. Albany, The University of the state of New York, 1924. url p. 394.
• Annual report of the Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture. Hartford: The Board, 1867-1925. url p. 30.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 22 1913 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 391, p. 393.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 1914 41 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 327, p. 328, p. 510.
• Catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of Connecticut growing without cultivation, Hartford, Printed for the State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1910. url .
• Contributions from the Department of Botany of Columbia University. [New York, N.Y.: s.n.], 1896- url p. 510.
• Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1899- url p. 327, p. 328.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 21 1919 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 176, p. 177, p. 542.
• Erigenia: journal of the Illinois Native Plant Society. Carbondale, Ill.: The Society, 1982- url p. 15, p. 16, p. 16, p. 18, p. 19, p. 19, p. 20, p. 37, p. 5, p. 56, p. 67.
• Flood tolerance of plant species in bottomland forests of the southeastern United States / 1992. url p. 140, p. 194.
• Flora of Delaware and the Eastern Shore: an annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of the peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. [Wilmington]: Society of Natural History of Delaware, 1946. url p. 145.
• Flora of Illinois, containing keys for the identification of the flowering plants and ferns, by George Neville Jones. .. Notre Dame, Ind., The University Press, 1945. url p. 151.
• Flora of Indiana, by Charles C. Deam. Indianapolis, Wm. B. Burford printing co., contractor for state printing and binding, 1940. url p. 573.
• Flora of the District of Columbia and vicinity. By A.S. Hitchcock and Paul C. Standley, with the assistance of the botanists of Washington. WashingtonGovt. print. off.1919 url p. 176, p. 177.
• Flora of the vicinity of New York; a contribution to plant geography. [New York]1915 url p. 368.
• Illinois River Bluffs area assessment / Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Office of Scientific Research and Analysis, [and the] State Geological Survey Division. Springfield, Ill.: Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources, 1998- url p. 169, p. 175.
• Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Lexington, KY: The Academy, 1998- url p. 146, p. 146, p. 147, p. 147, p. 150, p. 150, p. 153, p. 153, p. 155, p. 155, p. 157, p. 174, p. 174.
• Manual of the southeastern flora: being descriptions of the seed plants growing naturally in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, eastern Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. 1933 New York: The author, 1933. url p. 615.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1965 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 48.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 124, p. 71.
• Plant life of Alabama, an account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state. By Charles Mohr. .. Montgomery, Ala., Brown printing co., 1901. url p. 542.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 197.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 11, p. 13, p. 14, p. 14, p. 18, p. 19, p. 61, p. 64, p. 73, p. 77.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 39 1958 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 159, p. 560.
• Torreya. Burlington, Vt., Torrey Botanical Club, 1901-1945. url p. 3.
• Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science. [Lexington, Ky.]Kentucky Academy of Science, 1923-1997. url p. 196, p. 231, p. 4, p. 42, p. 47, p. 92.
• Vascular plants of the Sangamon River basin; annotated checklist and ecological summary [by] Almut G. Jones and David T. Bell. [Urbana], University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Agriculture, [1974] url p. 6.
• Yü Te-tsun, Lu Ling-ti, Ku Tsue-chih, Li Chao-luan, Kuan Ke-chien & Chiang Wan-fu. 1974, 1985, 1986. Rosaceae. In: Yü Te-tsun, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 36: 1443; 37: 1516; 38: 1133.
• Yü Te-tsun, Lu Ling-ti, Ku Tsue-chih, Li Chao-luan, Kuan Ke-chien & Chiang Wan-fu. 1974, 1985, 1986. Rosaceae. In: Yü Te-tsun, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 36: 1443; 37: 1516; 38: 1133.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:

• Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Herbarium
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2650216
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ros-4740
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13688319
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:720305-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 454700
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 25099
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 316551-2
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDROS03010
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: AGMO3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12896

Footnotes

1. Cuizhi Gu, Chaoluan Li, Lingdi Lu, Shunyuan Jiang, Crinan Alexander, Bruce Bartholomew, Anthony R. Brach, David E. Boufford, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba, Kenneth R. Robertson & Steven A. Spongberg "Rosaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 46. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Li Chao-luang, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba "Agrimonia". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 382. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 263.680 meters (865.092 feet), Standard Deviation = 149.950 based on 1,634 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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