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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Agrimonia pubescens
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ROSALES
 FAMILY:   ROSACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Agrimonia pubescens
 AUTHORITY:  Wallr.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    SOFT AGRIMONY
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: AGPU
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
       FLOODPLAIN FOREST
         MESIC
       THICKETS
     SAVANNA
       TYPICAL SAVANNA
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
     WETLAND
       BORDER OF LAKE
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NORTHERN
       Northern Hardwoods
           Sugar Maple-Basswood
 
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:
     Coastal Plain
        Cretaceous Hills
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           BOONE           BROWN           BUREAU          CALHOUN
   CARROLL         CASS            CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLARK
   COLES           COOK            CRAWFORD        DEKALB          DOUGLAS
   DUPAGE          EDGAR           EFFINGHAM       FAYETTE         FULTON
   GALLATIN        GREENE          GRUNDY          HANCOCK         HARDIN
   HENDERSON       HENRY           IROQUOIS        JACKSON         JO DAVIESS
   JOHNSON         KANE            KANKAKEE        KENDALL         KNOX
   LAKE            LASALLE         LAWRENCE        LEE             LIVINGSTON
   LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY         MCLEAN          MACON
   MACOUPIN        MADISON         MARSHALL        MASON           MASSAC
   MENARD          MONROE          MONTGOMERY      MOULTRIE        OGLE
   PEORIA          PERRY           PIATT           PIKE            POPE
   PUTNAM          RANDOLPH        RICHLAND        ROCK ISLAND     ST. CLAIR
   SALINE          SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        SCOTT           SHELBY
   STARK           STEPHENSON      TAZEWELL        UNION           VERMILION
   WABASH          WARREN          WAYNE           WHITESIDE       WILL
   WILLIAMSON      WINNEBAGO       WOODFORD
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMY COMMENTS:
     This is including A. mollis (Torr. & Gray) Britt.
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Primary   Adventitious   (rhizomes)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:    Compound  (pinnately)
    LEAF MARGIN:   Serrate
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:     Lanceolate     Obovate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Raceme
    FLOWER MEROUS:  5
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Yellow
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Perigynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Principal leaflets 5-9; leaflets pointed; stem pubescence incurving.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      7         MONTH END-      9
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MAJOR DISPERSAL AGENTS:   BIRD   -external     MAMMAL   -external
 
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Jones, G. N.  1963.  Flora of Illinois.  Third ed.  American Midland Naturalist
     Monograph 7.  University of Notre Dame, Indiana.  401 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist.  1963.  Manual of vascular plants of north-
     eastern United States and adjacent Canada.  Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.,
     New York.  810 pp.
Fernald, M. L.  1950.  Gray's manual of botany.  8th ed.  American Book Co.,
     New York.  1632 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Agrimonia pubescens
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015