ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Agrimonia rostellata CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: ROSALES FAMILY: ROSACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Agrimonia rostellata AUTHORITY: Wallr. COMMON NAMES: WOODLAND AGRIMONY SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: AGRO3 NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST UPLAND FOREST DRY DRY-MESIC MESIC SAVANNA TYPICAL SAVANNA DRY-MESIC MESIC SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: UNAVAILABLE NATURAL DIVISION: Coastal Plain Cretaceous Hills COUNTIES: ADAMS ALEXANDER BOND CALHOUN CHRISTIAN CLARK CLAY COLES COOK CRAWFORD DOUGLAS DUPAGE EDGAR EDWARDS EFFINGHAM FAYETTE GALLATIN GREENE HANCOCK HARDIN JACKSON JASPER JEFFERSON JERSEY JOHNSON KANKAKEE KNOX LAWRENCE MCDONOUGH MACON MACOUPIN MARION MASON MASSAC MONROE MONTGOMERY MORGAN MOULTRIE PEORIA PERRY PIKE POPE PULASKI RANDOLPH RICHLAND ST. CLAIR SALINE SANGAMON SCHUYLER SCOTT SHELBY UNION VERMILION WABASH WASHINGTON WAYNE WHITE WILL WILLIAMSON GROWTH FORM: Dicot-herb TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary Adventitious (rhizomes) LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Alternate LEAF TYPE: Compound (pinnately) (trifoliate) LEAF MARGIN: Serrate LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Obovate INFLORESCENCE: Raceme FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Complete Regular FLOWER COLOR: Yellow FLOWER PLACEMENT: Perigynous FRUIT: Achene DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS: Principal leaflets 3-9; inflorescence axis is glandular. 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 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Species is distributed in grassy areas adjacent to woodlands. 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 rostellata ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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