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Alchemilla cymatophylla Juz.

Rosaceae · Austria, Czechoslovakia +14

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-26.8°C
Record low -40.1 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
22°C
Jul at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
706mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
2–34DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes June to December, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Alchemilla cymatophylla is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Rosaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Alchemilla cymatophylla", 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.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (493 mm of 703 mm) falls in June to December, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 8.4 °C against a yearly mean of 5.0 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to June.

Rain

703 mm in the median year at the habitat, 493 mm of it June to December. Wettest month August at 84 mm, driest month March at 36 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 607 mm to 1,024 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 706 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 703 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: 2 to 34 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 1, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -26.8 °C, the absolute minimum -40.1 °C, 7,859 frost nights in 44 years, 178.6 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 27.3 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -10.8 °C in February (across the grid cells of the range -13.9 °C to -6.3 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 22.1 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -26.8 °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: 56 to 73% 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 +17 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 cymatophylla through the yearWarmest month July, mean daily high 22 °C; coldest month February, mean nightly low -10.8 °C; 703 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.-60°-40°-20°0°20°40°frost27.3° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-40.1° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 2–34RH 56–73%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 324 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 °C-5 / -9–-1-5 / -8–01 / -2–49 / 5–1116 / 12–1820 / 16–2222 / 19–2320 / 18–2115 / 12–168 / 5–100 / -3–4-4 / -7–0
Night °C-10 / -15–-6-11 / -14–-6-6 / -8–-31 / -3–27 / 4–811 / 8–1314 / 11–1513 / 10–148 / 6–93 / 0–4-4 / -7–-1-9 / -12–-5
Rain mm48 / 39–6838 / 31–6036 / 30–7237 / 32–6051 / 43–8682 / 71–10483 / 71–12784 / 67–11368 / 58–8968 / 54–8555 / 47–8053 / 44–79
DLI3 / 2–68 / 6–1117 / 14–1925 / 25–2833 / 32–3534 / 33–3633 / 32–3526 / 24–2916 / 14–198 / 7–124 / 3–62 / 1–5
RH %73 / 69–7570 / 67–7264 / 62–6658 / 57–6056 / 55–6059 / 57–6160 / 58–6161 / 59–6363 / 61–6665 / 63–6970 / 68–7372 / 70–74
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 324 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (430 records in those cells; 2 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are 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 679:4343 (56.025, 37.175). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -40.1 °C, 1st-percentile night -26.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 27.3 °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 324 distinct grid cells holding 430 of the 432 in-range records (2 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 679:4343 (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 56.00_36.875, lapse-corrected +17 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 213 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.
NativeAustria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Altay, Buryatiya · introduced: Finland, Norway, Sweden · 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 marker55.71, 37.505 · in the densest population, 292 records (38% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “subalpine or subarctic” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 762 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 430 of them in the land cells it reads, of 432 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 559 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 568 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 330 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 762 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Михаил Языков, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

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

Ranunculus fallax Ranunculus fallax Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, Марина ДавлетшинаPotentilla thuringiaca Potentilla thuringiaca European cinquefoil Photo: CC BY, Марина ДавлетшинаAlchemilla baltica Alchemilla baltica Baltic Lady's Mantle Photo: CC BY, Dmitriy BochkovVeronica longifolia Veronica longifolia Garden speedwell Photo: CC BY, Andre HosperCarex rhizina Carex rhizina Cyperaceae Photo: CC BY, Dmitriy BochkovRanunculus cassubicus Ranunculus cassubicus Kashubian Buttercups Photo: CC BY, snaily_naily

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_oswald Alchemilla arvensis Rosaceae Alchemilla 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 Mortin 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 breviloba; Alchemilla cymatophylla f. aestivalis; Alchemilla cymatophylla f. autumnalis; Potentilla cymatophylla. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Juz.
Native to
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany +13
Wild records
762 in range · 559 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 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 67 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (35 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 32 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 56.00_36.875, lapse-corrected +17 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
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 59 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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