Agrimonia striata

Britton's agrimony, grooved agrimony, Grooved Agrimony

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Britton's agrimony is a California native perennial found in the Oak Glen area of the San Bernardino Mountains and the White Mountains in moist woodland habitats at elevations of 1,000 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces yellow flowers in elongated clusters 8 to 60 centimeters long with 10 to 60 individual blooms. Growing with tall stems 20 to 150 centimeters high, it features distinctive glandular and non-glandular hairs along its stems and branches. Its compound leaves are impressive, with 3 to 11 diamond-shaped to elliptic leaflets reaching up to 11 centimeters long, covered in soft, shaggy straight hairs. The fruit develops a small hypanthium 2 to 7 millimeters long with distinctive bristles arranged in three rows.

Habitat: Moist places, generally in woodland

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1000-3000 m

Bioregions: SnBr (Oak Glen), W&ampI (White Mtns)

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.