Alchemilla arvensis(L.) Scop.

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WFO wfo-0001016026 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alchemilla arvensis, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. a Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-18 / obs. 198665880
Alchemilla arvensis, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. b Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194471247
Alchemilla arvensis, photographed by David Sandler
fig. c David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193146749
Alchemilla arvensis, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. d Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191773351
Alchemilla arvensis, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. e Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187181132
Alchemilla arvensis, photographed by SK53
fig. f SK53, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174919281
Alchemilla arvensis, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. g Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154708169
Alchemilla arvensis, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. h Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154709163

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Alchemilla arvensis is native: Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine CyprusEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelgiumBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Baleares
Native distribution of Alchemilla arvensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Baltic States BLT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,230 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.2 °C -0.5 °C 6.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.6 °C 22.6 °C 27.2 °C
Annual rainfall 596 mm 822 mm 1,588 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 78 mm 149 mm 265 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,230 research-grade observations of Alchemilla arvensis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alchemilla aphanes Leers
  • Alchemilla arvensis f. cineracea Rothm.
  • Alchemilla arvensis f. elongata Font Quer ex Rothm.
  • Alchemilla arvensis subsp. collina Buser
  • Alchemilla arvensis var. angustifolia Opiz
  • Alchemilla arvensis var. eucornucopioides Maire
  • Alchemilla arvensis var. glabra Greene
  • Alchemilla arvensis var. lucronensis Pau ex Cámara
  • Alchemilla arvensis var. prostrata Schröt. ex R.Keller
  • Alchemilla arvensis var. typica Fiori
  • Alchemilla delicatula Sennen
  • Alchemilla monandra Stokes
  • Alchemilla triloba Gilib.
  • Aphanes arvensis L.
  • Aphanes delicatula Sennen
  • Aphanes monogyna Mazziari
  • Aphanes triloba Gilib.
  • Aphanes vulgaris Schur
  • Percepier arvensis (L.) Moench
  • Potentilla arvensis (L.) Christenh. & Väre

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol APAR2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.