Alchemilla subglobosa

Alchemilla subglobosa is a slender perennial herb of the Rosaceae belonging to the taxonomically complex Alchemilla vulgaris aggregate of lady's mantles, native to montane and subalpine grasslands of central and northern Europe. Plants form rosettes from a stout, woody, oblique rhizome, with leafy flowering stems 15–40 cm tall, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent. Basal leaves are long-petiolate, reniform-orbicular, 4–8 cm wide, divided to about one-third into 7–9 broad, rounded lobes with serrate margins; the upper surface is glabrous or nearly so, the lower surface sparsely silky on the veins. Stipules are membranous and sheathing. Stem leaves are smaller, short-petioled or sessile. Inflorescences are open cymose panicles of tiny yellow-green flowers 2–4 mm across, lacking petals; the calyx has 4 epicalyx segments alternating with 4 sepal lobes, 4 stamens, and a single carpel. The fruit is an achene enclosed in the persistent hypanthium. Like all Alchemilla, reproduction is apomictic (agamospermous).