Scientific name: Alchemilla filicaulis Buser
Description
Habit: A hairy perennial.
Stems: Erect.
Leaves: Mostly basal, stalked, with leafy stipules; up to 7 cm across, palmately divided into 7 lobes, lobes rounded but narrow at the tip, each lobe with 13-19 teeth.
Flowers: Yellow-greenish, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, numerous in terminal cymes on a hairy pedicel; calyx of 4 sepals and bracts; petals absent; stamens 4, attached to the top of the ovary or rim of calyx-tube; with hypanthium; carpel 1, deeply in the calyx tube.
Fruits: An achene, enclosed in the dry hypanthium.
Habitat: Meadows, pastures, scrub-margin, mountain-cliffs, limestone pavement.Distribution: Frequent on the limestone, rare elsewhere, mainly on mountains.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: Yes
The subspecies found in the region is Alchemilla filicaulis subsp. vestita (Buser) Bradshaw.