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Perennial. The rhizome more or less short, rather thick, simple or branching. The stems 30–100 cm high, generally solitary, erect, simple, or somewhat branching above, densely covered with long, coarse, spreading hairs and shorter and thinner, slightly crispy ones. All the leaves are cauline, the lower ones are scalelike, the middle adjacent as in a rosette, the upper abruptly diminishing remote, all leaves petioled and with rachises, covered like stem with two kinds of hairs, the lower and middle 9–30 cm long, twice as long as wide, with 5–9 (13) larger leaflets and 6–10 smaller intercalary lobes. The leaflets are 2–6 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, sessile, elliptic, ovate or rhombic, strongly and acutely toothed, with 5–10 teeth at each side and as many simple lateral nerves, dark green above,...
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Mehdiyeva, N.P. et al. (2017). Agrimonia eupatoria L. Rosaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_32
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