Alchemilla fulgens Buser

Spice fructiferous receptacle

Family: ROSACEAE

Genus: Alchemilla

Catalan common name: Herba botera. Peucrist. Pota de lleó, Alquemil·la.

Spanish common name: Alquemila. Pie de león.

Province distribution: Lleida.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Boreo-alpine (Pyrenees orophyt, Pyrenees alpine and Cantabrico Pyrenees

Uses and properties: Medicinal.

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Mesophyll mountainous grasslands.

Characteristics: Pastures and impoverished meadows, mesophilics. Upon calcareous and silicic soils. An herb with scantly divided palmate leaves, pilose on all surfaces. The leaves are ± deeply lobed and ogival in shape. The petioles have a pilose coat. The fructifying receptacles are densely pilose.

Observations: Pertains to the group of Alchemilla hybrida.