Aphanes
Aphanes is a genus of around 20 species in the rose family, native to Europe, Asia and Australia. A 2003 study indicated that Aphanes may belong to the genus Alchemilla, commonly called lady's-mantle. They are slender, annual prostrate herbs, much-branched with deeply lobed leaves, pilose and on short petioles. The tiny green to yellow flowers without petals grow in clusters in the denticulate leaflike stipules.
Species include:
- Aphanes andicola Rothm.
- Aphanes arvensis L. – field parsley-piert, western lady's-mantle, parsley breakstone
- Aphanes australiana – Australian piert
- Aphanes cotopaxiensis Romoleroux & Frost-Olsen
- Aphanes cuneifolia Rydb.
- Aphanes looseri Rothm.
- Aphanes microcarpa Rothm. – slender parsley-piert
- Aphanes occidentalis Rydb. – dew cup, lady's mantle
