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Photographer: Robert Bierman
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Family Rosaceae
Agrimonia pubescens Wallr.
downy agrimony, soft agrimony
Agrimonia: possibly from Greek argema, an eye-disease, because of supposed medicinal value
pubescens: with soft, downy hair
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, up to 40" + tall forb; stems stout with dense, short hairs |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, stalked; inflorescence a spike-like, interrupted cluster (raceme) on a stalk with dense, short hairs; blooms July-Aug. |
| Fruit: | dry seed with hooked prickles in a bell-shaped cluster  |
| Leaf: | once pinnately-divided into 5-13 large leaflets with smaller leaflets in-between, coarsely toothed, velvety below |
| Habitat: | partial sun; dry; woods |
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