Alchemilla monticolaOpiz

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WFO wfo-0001015000 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alchemilla monticola, photographed by timharris
fig. a timharris, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 195962862
Alchemilla monticola, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. b Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196054834
Alchemilla monticola, photographed by Matteo Marcandella
fig. c Matteo Marcandella, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187563186
Alchemilla monticola, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. d Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19161141
Alchemilla monticola, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. e Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201473061
Alchemilla monticola, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. f Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201497110
Alchemilla monticola, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. g Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201296894
Alchemilla monticola, photographed by Christina
fig. h Christina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199360507

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
03236078
Filed as
Alchemilla monticola Opiz
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 37 botanical countries

Regions where Alchemilla monticola is native: Altay, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Krasnoyarsk, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralKrasnoyarskTranscaucasusTürkiyeTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Alchemilla monticola, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

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 441 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -15.9 °C -6.7 °C -3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.9 °C 20.8 °C 23.3 °C
Annual rainfall 607 mm 1,067 mm 2,184 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 97 mm 202 mm 480 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 441 research-grade observations of Alchemilla monticola 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 33 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 gracilis Opiz
  • Alchemilla hungarica Soó
  • Alchemilla intermedia subsp. sooi Palitz & Soó
  • Alchemilla monticola f. adpressepilosa (Sam.) Rothm.
  • Alchemilla monticola var. hungarica (Soó) Soó
  • Alchemilla monticola var. subpastoralis (Pawł.) Plocek
  • Alchemilla palmata Gilib.
  • Alchemilla palmata subsp. pastoralis (Buser) Palitz
  • Alchemilla pascualis S.E.Fröhner
  • Alchemilla pastoralis Buser
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. adpressepilosa Sam.
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. aprica Buser
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. breviloba Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. breviloba-glabriflora Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. breviloba-hirsutiflora Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. longiloba Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. media Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. media-glabriflora Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. media-hirsutiflora Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. praticola G.C.Westerl.
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. truncata Buser
  • Alchemilla pastoralis f. vegeta Buser
  • Alchemilla pastoralis var. subpastoralis Pawł.
  • Alchemilla pratensis var. pastoralis (Buser) Schinz & R.Keller

and 9 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.