Plants small, gray-green, ˂to 20 cm˃. Stems densely ascending-spreading-hairy, sometimes sericeous. Leaves: stipules translucent, colorless, sometimes flushed pale wine red proximally, green distally, ˂lobes green˃; blade orbiculate, rather shallowly 7–9-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses closed, middle lobes rounded, as long as to slightly longer than their half-widths; incisions usually absent or relatively short, sometimes relatively long; teeth slightly connivent, slightly asymmetric, apex subacute or almost digitate, surfaces densely hairy. Inflorescences: primary branches sericeous; ˂peduncles sericeous˃. Pedicels sericeous. Flowers: epicalyx bractlet lengths 0.5 times as sepals (narrower); hypanthium sericeous. Achenes not or exserted to 1/20 from discs.

Flowering Jun–Aug. Waste ground; 0–50 m; introduced; Que.; Europe.

In the flora area, Alchemilla glaucescens is known only from Grosse-Ile in the St. Lawrence River.