Alchemilla glabra Smooth Lady's-mantle

Smooth Lady's-mantle is a plant of grassy habitats such as mesotrophic meadows, verges and rocky gullies on cliffs. Although it is a relatively common native Lady's Mantle in Britain, it is uncommon in West Glamorgan where it is confined to upland areas in Neath Port Talbot. It is absent from Gower. It occurs occasionally, in small amounts, in grassy roadside verges along forest roads in conifer plantations in the Neath Valley, which provide a refuge for this species in the county. It is also found sparingly on the north facing cliffs of Craig y Llyn. It differs from the other Lady's-mantles in West Glamorgan in its overall, general lack of hairs. Noatably, leaf stalks are hairless and leaves are almost entirely without hairs apart from a few appressed hairs at the ends of the veins on the underside. All parts of the inflorescence are hairless but there may be some hairyness at the base of the stems. Rosette leaves have 7-9 lobes each with 11-19 teeth that are somewhat incurved.

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