| Description | A tall native plant who's seed pods have the nasty habit of hitching rides on your clothing. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Weeds |
| Sunlight | shaded, partial shade, woodland thickets |
| Moisture | average to moist |
| Soil & Site | average to moist |
| Flowers | yellow, regular, about .5 inches and found on long slender racemes. |
| Fruit | fruit has hooked bristles that attach to animals or clothing. |
| Leaves | compound, alternate, 5-9 leaflets, leaflets get larger toward the end of the leaf and there may be smaller leaflets between the larger leaflets. |
| Dimensions | up to 3 feet |
| Misc Facts | Agrimony contains essential oil, bitters and vitamins but it is large amounts of tannins that are responsible for most of it's medicinal properties. |
| Author's Notes | The place I have commonly seen this plant is at the edges of woodlands in shaded areas. |
| Notes & Reference | #07- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Lawrence Newcomb), #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz) |
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