Roadside Agrimony

Agrimonia striata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 287. 1803
Agrimonia Brittoniana Bickn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 517. 1896.
Perennial, with a stout rootstock and fibrous roots; stem 3-20 dm. high, sometimes 1 cm. thick at the base, hirsute with spreading hairs and glandular-papillose; stipules lanceolate or semi-ovate, laciniate with lanceolate, acuminate teeth; petiole and rachis of the leaves hirsute; principal leaflets 7-13, directed forward, strongly veined, dark-green and more or less hispidulous or scabrous above, paler, copiously glandular-granuliferous and more or less pubescent 395
beneath, especially on the veins, lanceolate, elliptic, oblanceolate, or rhombic-obovate, acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, sharply serrate with lanceolate mucronulate teeth, 3-10 cm. long; interposed leaflets 1-3 pairs in each interval, often alternately arranged, usually toothed; peduncles finely pubescent with ascending or appressed hairs, 3-5 dm. long; pedicels ascending, 2-5 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 3-cleft; bractlets ovate, acuminate; sepals 1.5 mm. long, triangular-ovate, strongly 3-ribbed; petals deep-yellow, obovate, 3 mm. long; fruiting hypanthium when mature strongly reflexed, about 5 mm. long, turbinate, 4 mm. thick, strongly ribbed, glandulargranuliferous and in the grooves strigose, with a low thick rim; bristles in 3-4 series, erect or connivent.
Type locality: Canada.
Distribution: Roadsides, open woods, and copses, from Nova Scotia to West Virginia, New Mexico, and British Columbia.