Common Name:
agrimony
Common Name Synonyms:
tall hairy agrimony, church steeples, stickwort, sticklewort
Scientific Name:
Agrimonia gryposepala
Family Name:
Rosaceae
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Rose Family
Life Cycle
Native perennial, reproducing by seed
Stems
Upright, stout, branched, long soft hairs, dark green, slightly fragrant when crushed
Leaves
Alternate, pinnately compound, 5 to 9 leaflets increasing in size toward tip, small leaflet between main leaflets, ovate-lanceolate to obovate, coarsely toothed, mostly smooth above, rachis hairy leaves
Flowers
5-petaled, yellow, stalk hairy and glanular; solitary terminal spikes flowers
Fruit
Fruits enclosed in burr-like capsule, capsule top-shaped with hooked spines, green