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Alchemilla mollis (Buser) Rothm.

Garden Lady's-mantle, Lady's mantle, Lady's-Mantle, Samt-Frauenmantel

Climate known 53 photographs
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Summary

Alchemilla mollis, the garden lady's-mantle or lady's-mantle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. This herbaceous perennial plant is native to Southern Europe and grown throughout the world as an ornamental garden plant. It grows 30 to 45 cm tall, with leaves that are palmately veined, with a scalloped and serrated margin. The stipules are noteworthy in that they are fused together and leaf like. More on Wikipedia ›

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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.

Text from Wikipedia, “Alchemilla”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
(Buser) Rothm.
Native to
Sweden, Switzerland, Bulgaria +3
Wild records
119 in range· 110 open

At a glance

Warmest month
21°C
Jul, mean day; nights 13 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
770mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Aug 87 mm (CHELSA)
Light
2–36DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (June to January in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 770 mm a year, wettest August at 87 mm, driest April at 41 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 2 to 36 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -16.6 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Alchemilla acutiloba Steven; Alchemilla acutiloba subsp. catillaris Buser; Alchemilla acutiloba subsp. mollis (Buser) Buser; Alchemilla acutiloba subsp. mollis (Buser) Hayek; Alchemilla acutiloba subsp. pontica Buser and 8 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (June to January in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (587 mm of 770 mm) takes 8 months, June to January. Mean temperature moves 17.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to July.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: 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 gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 770 mm a year, wettest August at 87 mm, driest April at 41 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

770 mm a year at the habitat, 587 mm of it June to January. Wettest month August at 87 mm, driest April at 41 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 593 mm to 1328 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

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

Light Open sky over the habitat: 2 to 36 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 2 to 36 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 1, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).

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.

Warmth and air Cold floor -16.6 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -16.6 °C, the absolute minimum -26.4 °C, about 124 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 27.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -3.7 °C in February (across the envelope cells -9.4 °C to -1.5 °C), warmest day 20.6 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -16.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 59 to 70% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 1 °C in Jan to 21 °C in Jul; mean night from -4 °C in Feb to 13 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Jan to Mar, is the three months around the coldest night. 770 mm of rain a year, most in Aug. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 111 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -26.4 °C and the 99th-percentile day 27.8 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°frost27.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)-26.4° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 2–36RH 59–70 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 111 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C1 / -3–32 / -3–34 / 0–69 / 6–1115 / 11–1618 / 16–1921 / 19–2220 / 18–2115 / 13–1711 / 8–125 / 2–72 / -2–4
Night °C-3 / -10–-2-4 / -9–-2-2 / -6–12 / -2–37 / 3–811 / 8–1213 / 11–1513 / 10–1410 / 6–116 / 2–71 / -4–3-2 / -8–-0
Rain mm56 / 39–10544 / 31–7647 / 33–9441 / 33–10151 / 39–11973 / 58–12683 / 64–12387 / 68–12373 / 55–10878 / 57–12174 / 56–11263 / 49–105
DLI3 / 2–97 / 6–1415 / 14–2226 / 25–3034 / 33–3536 / 35–3734 / 32–3627 / 25–3018 / 16–239 / 7–154 / 2–92 / 1–7
RH %69 / 63–7268 / 62–6964 / 61–6560 / 59–6159 / 56–6160 / 58–6160 / 59–6262 / 61–6363 / 63–6566 / 64–6869 / 64–7170 / 63–73

Each figure is the median across the 111 grid cells holding the 118 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 624:3941 (58.775, 17.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -26.4 °C, 1st-percentile night -16.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 27.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 111 distinct grid cells holding the 118 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 624:3941 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 59.00_16.875, lapse-corrected -24 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 17 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 every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeSweden, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Romania, Transcaucasus, Turkey· introduced: Denmark, Føroyar, Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, France, Ukraine, Newfoundland
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker56.65, 12.869 · in the densest population, 74 records (62% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 119 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 110 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 34 km away. 1285 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km and stays on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 119 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Thomas Gyselinck, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) mteeter, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); no rights reserved · CC0.

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Alchemilla mollis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Quantitative assessment to the structural basis of water repellency in natural and technical surfaces
P. E. Wagner, Reiner Fürstner, Wilhelm Barthlott, Christoph Neinhuis (2003) · Journal of Experimental Botany
Comparative analysis of bioactive phenolic compounds composition from 26 medicinal plants
Oksana Sytar, Irene Hemmerich, Marek Živčák, Cornelia Rauh (2016) · Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
Antibacterial activity of biosynthesized gold nanoparticles using biomolecules from Lignosus rhinocerotis and chitosan
Haliza Katas, Chei Sin Lim, Ahmad Yasser Hamdi Nor Azlan, Fhataheya Buang (2018) · Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal
The superhydrophobicity of polymer surfaces: Recent developments
Neil J. Shirtcliffe, Glen McHale, Michael I. Newton (2011) · Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics
Anisotropic gold nanoparticles: A survey of recent synthetic methodologies
José E. Ortiz-Castillo, Roberto C. Gallo‐Villanueva, Marc Madou, Victor H. Pérez‐González (2020) · Coordination Chemistry Reviews
Effectiveness of plants and green infrastructure utilization in ambient particulate matter removal
K. Wróblewska, Byoung Ryong Jeong (2021) · Environmental Sciences Europe
Natural and synthetic superhydrophobic surfaces: A review of the fundamentals, structures, and applications
Freshteh Sotoudeh, Seyed Mahmood Mousavi, Nader Karimi, Bok Jik Lee (2023) · Alexandria Engineering Journal
Role of Phytochemicals in Skin Photoprotection via Regulation of Nrf2
Anyamanee Chaiprasongsuk, Uraiwan Panich (2022) · Frontiers in Pharmacology
A second update to the checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy
Gabriele Galasso, Fabio Conti, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Alessandro Alessandrini (2024) · Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology
Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris: A Review of Recent Evidences
Hamid Nasri, Mahmoud Bahmani, Najmeh Shahinfard, Atefeh Moradi Nafchi (2015) · Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology
A Review on the Dietary Flavonoid Tiliroside
D Grochowski, Marcello Locatelli, Sebastian Granica, Francesco Cacciagrano (2018) · Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 65 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.