
Agrimonia pubescens.Michael Hassler.New England Wild Flower Society.gobotany.newenglandwild.org.jpg (Accessed 4/2014).
Agrimonia pubescens is a perennial herb to 1 m tall; stems stout, densely short-hairy; roots thick-tuberous.
Leaves alternate, widely spaced, pinnately compound, leaflets 5-13, narrow, velvety-hairy below, coarsely toothed, with 1-3 irregular pairs of much smaller leaflets between larger pairs, stipules lanceolate, toothed.

Agrimonia pubescens. flowers. David G. Smith. discoverlife.org (Accessed 7/2017).
Flowers yellow, radially symmetrical, about 0.7 cm, petals 5, base of flower (calyx tube) enlarged, rimmed above with hooked bristles; inflorescence stalk densely hairy, unbranched; blooms July-Sept.

Agrimonia pubescens fruit. David G. Smith. discoverlife.org (Accessed 7/2017).
Fruit dry, top-shaped, old calyx tube 0.3 cm long, deeply furrowed and hairy, top half of fruit covered with hard, hooked bristles, above calyx tube, tip beaked, 2-seeded. Dispersed by attachment to fur or clothing.
Wetland status: UPL.
Frequency in NYC: Very infrequent.
Origin: Native.
Habitat: Open upland woods.
Notes: Winter plant with spike-like racemes of small top-shaped fruits, upper half bristle-covered (Brown 1976).