Hairless Lady's-mantle | Plant Information

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Plant Data

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Order:

Rosales

Family:

Rosaceae (Rose)

Also in this family:

Alpine Lady's-mantle, Barren Strawberry, Bearberry Cotoneaster, Bird Cherry, Blackthorn, Bramble, Bullate Cotoneaster, Burnet Rose, Cherry Laurel, Common Agrimony, Common Hawthorn, Common Lady's-mantle, Common Whitebeam, Crab Apple, Creeping Chinese Bramble, Creeping Cinquefoil, Cultivated Apple, Cultivated Pear, Damson, Dewberry, Dog Rose, Dropwort, Entire-leaved Cotoneaster, Firethorn, Fragrant Agrimony, Franchet's Cotoneaster, Garden Lady's-mantle, Goatsbeard Spiraea, Great Burnet, Greengage Plum, Hollyberry Cotoneaster, Japanese Quince, Japanese Rose, Jew's Mallow, Late Cotoneaster, Marsh Cinquefoil, Meadowsweet, Midland Hawthorn, Mountain Ash, Pale Lady's-mantle, Parsley Piert, Portuguese Laurel, Purple-flowered Raspberry, Raspberry, Rock Whitebeam, Salad Burnet, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Silverweed, Southern Downy Rose, Spring Cinquefoil, Sulphur Cinquefoil, Swedish Whitebeam, Tormentil, Wall Cotoneaster, Water Avens, Waterer's Cotoneaster, Wild Cherry, Wild Plum, Wild Strawberry, Willow-leaved Bridewort, Wood Avens

Type:

Flower

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Maximum Size:

60 centimetres tall

Habitats:

Grassland, mountains, riversides.

Flower:

Yellow, 4 petals

The yellowish-green flowers have a maximum diameter of 3mm. 4 pointed petals and 4 smaller sepals.

Fruit:

Small and insignificant fruit (a dry achene).

Leaves:

Scallop-shaped, serrated leaves. 7 to 9 leaf lobes, but occasionally 11. The hairs are mainly around the nodes on the stems but the entire plant is mostly hairless (as its name implies). The Hairless Lady's-mantle has smooth and (almost) hairless leaves. The teeth on the leaf margins are pointed and curve inwards. Common in Scotland, Wales and north west England. Seldom seen elsewhere in the British Isles. Perennial.

Other Names:

Smooth Lady's-mantle.

Frequency (UK):

Common