Clustered Lady's Mantle

Alchemilla glomerulans Buser, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 :
App. 2 : 30. 1893.
Perennial, with a thick rootstock ; stem usually 2-3 dm. high, sparingly appressedpubescent; basal leaves long-petioled; stipules brown, scarious, ovate, pubescent; petioles 0.5-2.5 cm. long, sparingly pubescent or glabrate; leaf-blades reniform, 5-13 cm. wide, plicate, with nearly central petioles, pubescent on both sides, with 9-11 rounded lobes having 5-8 large ovate mucronate teeth on each side ; stem-leaves short-petioled or sessile ; stipules large, often 1-1.5 cm. long, connate, rounded or truncate, with ovate teeth; leafblades reniform to flabelliform-cuneate ; inflorescence irregularly cymose with the yellowish flowers in small rounded clusters at the ends of the branches ; pedicels short, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs; hypanthium 1-1.5 mm. long, campanulate, rather abruptly acute at the base, glabrous ; bractlets lanceolate, glabrous, nearly as long as the ovate acute sepals, which are 1-1.5 mm. long.
Type locality : Switzerland.
Distribution : Alpine regions of western Europe, Lapland, Iceland, Greenland, Baffin Bay region, and Labrador.