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Botanical Description

the wild at least) sometimes to 1m tall and wide. Stems silvery-hairy but largely encased by reddish-brown stipules from the leaf bases. Leaves 5-15mm long, deeply three-lobed, silvery-hairy. Flowers in clusters of five to seven, just emerging from the stipule sheaths and insignificant. East African mountains, in moorland, grassland and on dry rocky slopes at 2250-4500m.

a, A. alpina; b, A. argyrophylla; c, A. hageniae; d, A. minor; e, A. pratensis; f, A. vulgaris;