Alchemilla mollis (Lady's Mantle)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alchemilla mollis, photographed by Karen Fry — fig. a Karen Fry, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-01 / obs. 202636229

Alchemilla mollis, photographed by Chase Mathey — fig. b Chase Mathey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200995297

Alchemilla mollis, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning — fig. c Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198536910

Alchemilla mollis, photographed by B. Phalan — fig. d B. Phalan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196267168

Alchemilla mollis, photographed by Tina Ellegaard Poulsen — fig. e Tina Ellegaard Poulsen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195011684

Alchemilla mollis, photographed by Tim Johnson — fig. f Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195556067

Alchemilla mollis, photographed by Susan Marley — fig. g Susan Marley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191754860

Alchemilla mollis, photographed by Colin Meurk — fig. h Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165463320

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Alchemilla mollis, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bulgaria	BUL	EUROPE
Romania	ROM
Sweden	SWE
Switzerland	SWI
Transcaucasus	TCS	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye	TUR

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.

Flowering 85 in flower of 136 examined

28%

82%

96%

75%

63%

Proportion of examined Alchemilla mollis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	2	too few examined
Apr	0	7	0%	0% to 35%
May	8	29	28%	15% to 46%
Jun	32	39	82%	67% to 91%
Jul	25	26	96%	81% to 99%
Aug	15	20	75%	53% to 89%
Sep	5	8	63%	31% to 86%
Oct	0	4	too few examined
Nov	0	1	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Alchemilla mollis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 85 of 136 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,977 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-12.6 °C	-0.4 °C	3.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	11.9 °C	20.2 °C	27.1 °C
Annual rainfall	653 mm	1,015 mm	2,390 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	98 mm	192 mm	353 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 1,977 research-grade observations of Alchemilla mollis 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 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 acutiloba Steven
Alchemilla acutiloba subsp. catillaris Buser
Alchemilla acutiloba subsp. mollis (Buser) Buser
Alchemilla acutiloba var. mollis Buser
Alchemilla glareosa hort.
Alchemilla mollis f. aprica Rothm.
Alchemilla mollis f. catillaris (Buser) Rothm.
Alchemilla montana Schur
Alchemilla vulgaris subsp. acutiloba (Steven) Nyman
Alchemilla vulgaris subsp. acutiloba Nyman
Alchemilla vulgaris var. major Boiss. & Buhse
Alchemilla vulgaris var. major Boiss.
Potentilla alchemollis Christenh. & Väre

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.