Alchemilla kerneri, Rothm.

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 : 53

20. A. kerneri Rothm. , Feddes Repert. 66: 226 (1962).

Stems up to 15 cm, densely sericeous throughout, including pedicels, but some flowers subglabrous. Leaves suborbicular with narrow sinus, glabrous above, sericeous beneath, lobed up to f; lobes 5—7(—9), subtruncate, with distinct incisions and 4-6 subobtuse teeth. • N.E. Alps, very local. Au Ge. Series Pubescentes Buser. Dwarf or medium-sized, usually with dense, soft, more or less patent hairs often covering all parts of the plant. Leaves less than 6 cm wide, usually shallowly palmately lobed to less than lobes with 4-5(-6) usually rather wide and obtuse teeth. Epicalyx-segments usually slightly shorter and narrower than sepals. Characteristic of rather dry grassland or open, rocky habitats, in the lowlands in N. Europe and submontane in the south; not markedly synanthropic.