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Photographer: Dan Tenaglia
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Family Rosaceae
Agrimonia parviflora Aiton
harvest-lice, southern agrimony, swamp agrimony
Agrimonia: possibly from Greek argema, an eye-disease, because of supposed medicinal value
parviflora: Latin for "small flower"
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, up to 4' tall forb; stems stout, densely hairy |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, on short, erect stalk; inflorescence a spike-like, interrupted cluster (raceme) on a finely hairy stalk; blooms July-Aug. |
| Fruit: | dry seed with hooked prickles in a rounded cluster  |
| Leaf: | once pinnately-divided into 11-23 large leaflets with smaller ones in-between, sharply toothed, glandular below |
| Habitat: | damp; woods |
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