Aphanes

 ( Rosaceae Genera ) 

Aphanes ( parsley-piert) is a genus of around 20 species

in the rose family (Rosaceae), 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 , much-branched with deeply lobed Leaf, pilose (covered with soft hair) and on short petioles. The tiny green to yellow without grow in clusters in the denticulate leaflike .

Species include:

• Aphanes andicola Rothm.
• Aphanes arvensis L. – field parsley-piert, western lady's-mantle, parsley breakstone
• Aphanes australiana – Australian piert
• Aphanes australis Rydb.
• Aphanes cotopaxiensis Romoleroux & Frost-Olsen
• Aphanes cuneifolia (Nutt.) Rydb.
• Aphanes looseri Rothm.
• Aphanes microcarpa (Boiss. & Reut.) Rothm. (syn. A. australis, A. inexpectata) – slender parsley-piert
• Aphanes occidentalis (Nutt.) Rydb. – dew cup, lady's mantle

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