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Alchemilla arvensis (L.) Scop.

Rosaceae · Great Britain, Ireland +31

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-10.6°C
Record low -22.0 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
23°C
Jul at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,069mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
6–35DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
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  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
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Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Alchemilla arvensis (syn. Aphanes arvensis), known as parsley-piert, is a sprawling, downy plant common all over the British Isles where it grows on arable fields and bare wastelands, particularly in dry sites. The short-stalked leaves have three segments each lobed at the tip. It flowers from April to September. The tiny green flower has four sepals and no petals; stipules form a leaf-like cup, enclosing the flower.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Alchemilla arvensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Alchemilla

Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Rosaceae, with the common name lady's mantle applied generically as well as specifically to Alchemilla mollis when referred to as a garden plant. The plant used as a herbal tea or for medicinal usage such as gynaecological disorders is Alchemilla xanthochlora or in Middle Europe the so-called common lady's mantle Alchemilla vulgaris. There are between 800 and 1000 species, the majority native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of Europe and Asia, with a few species native to the mountains of Africa and the Americas.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Alchemilla", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (747 mm of 1,056 mm) takes 8 months, May to December. Mean temperature moves 16.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to June.

Rain

1,056 mm in the median year at the habitat, 747 mm of it May to December. Wettest month December at 98 mm, driest month February at 70 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 756 mm to 1,460 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,069 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,056 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 6 to 35 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 4, the highest 90th-percentile month 38).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -10.6 °C, the absolute minimum -22.0 °C, 3,043 frost nights in 44 years, 69.2 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.4 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -1.4 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -4.3 °C to 2.3 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 22.5 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -10.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 59 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -330 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Alchemilla arvensis through the yearWarmest month July, mean daily high 23 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low -1.4 °C; 1,056 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost30.4° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-22.0° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 6–35RH 59–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 326 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C5 / 3–76 / 5–810 / 8–1113 / 11–1417 / 15–1920 / 18–2223 / 20–2522 / 20–2419 / 17–2014 / 13–169 / 7–105 / 4–7
Night °C-1 / -4–2-1 / -4–22 / 0–34 / 3–59 / 7–911 / 10–1314 / 12–1614 / 12–1611 / 10–138 / 6–93 / 1–50 / -3–3
Rain mm81 / 61–11170 / 48–9383 / 55–10775 / 48–10097 / 58–14194 / 58–14495 / 57–14993 / 64–14889 / 64–13294 / 70–13487 / 68–12298 / 67–127
DLI8 / 5–1013 / 9–1621 / 16–2429 / 26–3133 / 31–3535 / 33–3835 / 31–3830 / 26–3322 / 18–2515 / 11–179 / 6–116 / 4–8
RH %66 / 61–6863 / 60–6661 / 59–6459 / 57–6260 / 58–6260 / 58–6260 / 58–6261 / 59–6363 / 61–6465 / 63–6667 / 63–6867 / 63–70
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 326 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (348 records in those cells; 1 more cell holds records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cell is left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 863:3735 (46.825, 6.775). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -22.0 °C, 1st-percentile night -10.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 30.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 326 distinct grid cells holding 348 of the 349 in-range records (1 further cell with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 863:3735 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 47.00_6.875, lapse-corrected -330 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 452 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 5365013 (Aphanes arvensis L., 899 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeGreat Britain, Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Baleares, Corse, France, Portugal, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Baltic States, Krym, Ukraine, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey · introduced: Finland, Poland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey, California, Delaware, Georgia, Mexico Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile North, Falkland Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker46.565, 6.558 · in the densest population, 155 records (44% of those in range)
Kew's description“annual” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 349 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 348 of them in the land cells it reads, of 349 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 234 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 131 records outside the WCVP native range not used.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 5365013 (Aphanes arvensis L.): Kew's file holds it as Aphanes arvensis L. (synonym under Alchemilla arvensis (L.) Scop.); 899 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 349 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Eranthis hyemalis Eranthis hyemalis Winter aconite Photo: CC0, author not statedAnemone nemorosa Anemone nemorosa Wood anemone Photo: CC BY, Katharine KhamhaengwongCarex flacca Carex flacca Glaucous sedge Photo: CC BY, Ondřej KřivanOrobanche caryophyllacea Orobanche caryophyllacea Bedstraw broomrape Photo: CC BY, Bobo-XBrachypodium sylvaticum Brachypodium sylvaticum False brome Photo: CC BY, Tatyana SovaPulmonaria montana Pulmonaria montana Mountain lungwort Photo: CC BY-SA, Laurine Johann

Other Alchemilla 48 in the reference

Alchemilla abyssinica Rosaceae Alchemilla alpina Alchemilla alpina Alpine lady's-mantle Photo: CC BY, Anniina KuusijärviAlchemilla anisiaca Alchemilla anisiaca Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, thomas_oswaldAlchemilla baltica Alchemilla baltica Baltic Lady's Mantle Photo: CC BY, Dmitriy BochkovAlchemilla bulgarica Alchemilla bulgarica Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizAlchemilla caucasica Alchemilla caucasica Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Jacek PietruszewskiAlchemilla conjuncta Alchemilla conjuncta Silver lady's-mantle Photo: CC BY, Jon MortinAlchemilla cymatophylla Alchemilla cymatophylla Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Михаил Языков Alchemilla decumbens Rosaceae Alchemilla epipsila Alchemilla epipsila Round-leaved Lady's-mantle Photo: CC BY-SA, SalicynaAlchemilla erythropoda Alchemilla erythropoda Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, carnifexAlchemilla faeroensis Alchemilla faeroensis Faeroeic lady's-mantle Photo: CC0, author not stated all 49 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Alchemilla arvensis var. typica; Alchemilla arvensis var. prostrata; Alchemilla aphanes; Alchemilla arvensis subsp. collina; Alchemilla arvensis var. eucornucopioides and 15 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
(L.) Scop.
Native to
Great Britain, Ireland, Austria +30
Wild records
349 in range · 234 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Alchemilla arvensis (L.) Scop. (plant_name_id 2938788), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 899 records of GBIF's key 5365013, Aphanes arvensis L. (Kew's file holds it as Aphanes arvensis L. (synonym under Alchemilla arvensis (L.) Scop.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 29 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (15 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 14 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 47.00_6.875, lapse-corrected -330 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 720390-1, POWO 720390-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 23 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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