Alchemilla murbeckiana

Alchemilla murbeckiana is a perennial herb of the rose family Rosaceae, one of many apomictic microspecies in the taxonomically complex Alchemilla vulgaris aggregate of lady's mantles. It is distributed in northern and central European montane regions. Plants form low rosettes of long-petiolate basal leaves, the blades orbicular to reniform with seven to nine shallow lobes and dentate margins, often pubescent on both surfaces with characteristic appressed or spreading hairs that distinguish the segregate. Stems are ascending, 15 to 40 centimetres tall, branching above to bear loose cymes of small yellow-green flowers. The flowers are apetalous, with four sepals and four epicalyx segments forming a typical Alchemilla calyx, and the gynoecium is reduced to a single carpel. Like most members of the aggregate the plant reproduces largely by apomixis, producing seeds without fertilisation. Dewdrops collected in the cupped leaves are a familiar feature of the genus.