Alchemilla heptagonaJuz.

WFO wfo-0001018780 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Alchemilla heptagona, photographed by Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov)
fig. a Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov), CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-12 / obs. 163582149
Alchemilla heptagona, photographed by Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov)
fig. b Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163582320
Alchemilla heptagona, photographed by Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov)
fig. c Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163582330
Alchemilla heptagona, photographed by Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov)
fig. d Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163582325

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 2210419
Filed as
Alchemilla heptagona Juz.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
C. G. Alm 1955-06-22
Origin
SE
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Alchemilla heptagona is native: Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Poland, Ukraine Baltic StatesBelarusCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaPolandUkraine
Native distribution of Alchemilla heptagona, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Poland POL
Ukraine UKR

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.

Also published as 3 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 heptagona f. aestivalis Snarskis
  • Alchemilla heptagona f. autumnalis Snarskis
  • Potentilla heptagona (Juz.) 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. 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.