Alchemilla decumbens, Buser

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 58

62. A. decumbens Buser , Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 44 (1894).

Dwarf, with more or less procumbent stems up to 20 cm long, ascending only in inflorescence, subglabrous or hairy on lowest internode and at base of cauline stipules. Leaves reniform to suborbicular, hairy above only in the folds and beneath only on the veins, lobed to c. lobes 7-9, rounded or quadrangular, usually with long incisions and with 4-7 long, narrow, acute teeth; cauline leaves with overlapping lobes. Petioles of summer leaves with somewhat deflexed hairs. Inflorescence usually greatly exceeding leaves, glabrous. Flowers 3-4 mm wide; epicalyx-segments less than I as long as and narrower than the wide sepals. Snowpatches and damp hollows, 1500-2600 m. • Alps, Jura. Au Ga GeHeIt.