Bastard lady's mantle

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Bastard lady's mantle
Bastard lady's mantle (Alchemilla glaucescens)

Bastard lady's mantle ( Alchemilla glaucescens )

Systematics
Eurosiden I
Order : Rose-like (rosales)
Family : Rose family (Rosaceae)
Genre : Lady's mantle ( Alchemilla )
Section : Plicatae
Type : Bastard lady's mantle
Scientific name
Alchemilla glaucescens
Wallr.

The bastard lady's mantle ( Alchemilla glaucescens ), also known as gray-green lady's mantle or felted lady's mantle , is one of the rose plants (Rosaceae). It belongs to the Alchemilla glaucescens group, whose members are hairy in all parts. The leaf lobes have only 9 to 11 teeth.

Bastard lady's mantle ( herbarium evidence )

Appearance

The bastard lady's mantle is a small species that rarely grows up to 30 cm in height. The whole plant, including the flower stalks and the flowers, is hairy, sometimes very close to protruding forward. The basal sheets are usually rounded and have a narrow to somewhat overlapping basal bay. They are only 2 to 6 cm wide and divided to 1/3 to 1/2 in 7 to 9 parabolic lobes. In older specimens, the lobes are rather broader and hyperbolic to flat-arched. The flap halves have 3 to 6 rather narrow, wart-shaped teeth, with the central tooth usually being short.

The flower cup is spherical-bell-shaped and more or less rounded at the bottom, and is often slightly constricted in the upper part. The sepals are about as long as the flower cup. The outer sepals are significantly shorter and narrower than the sepals.

The bastard lady's mantle blooms mainly in the months of May to August.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 102-108.

Distribution and location requirements

The distribution area of Alchemilla glaucescens extends from central Scandinavia in the north to southern Italy. To the east it penetrates into the upper Volga region.

In Germany the species occurs very scattered. Its main area of ​​distribution is in the central and southern area.

In Austria, the bastard lady's mantle is widely used.

In Switzerland, the species is relatively common, especially in the southern part.

The species loves light and, unlike most other Alchemilla species, restricts its locations to dry or very poor places. It grows on both lime-poor and lime-rich soils.

Possible confusion

The bastard lady's mantle differs well from the other Alchemilla species due to its small size and thick hair.

literature

  • Henning Haeupler , Thomas Muer: picture atlas of the fern and flowering plants of Germany (= the fern and flowering plants of Germany. Volume 2). Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3364-4 .
  • Sebald, Seybold, Philippi: The fern and flowering plants of Baden-Württemberg , Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-8001-3314-8
  • Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald, Raimund Fischer: Excursion flora of Austria. Ed .: Manfred A. Fischer . Ulmer, Stuttgart / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-8001-3461-6 .
  • August Binz , Christian Heitz: School and excursion flora for Switzerland , Schwabe & Co. AG, Basel, 1986, ISBN 3-7965-0832-4
  • Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora , Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-8001-3454-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . 8th edition. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 . Page 558.

Web links

The hairs can be seen well on the stems and on the leaf surface
Commons : Bastard Lady's Mantle  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files