Alchemilla orbiculataRuiz & Pav.

WFO wfo-0000986220 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alchemilla orbiculata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. a Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-09 / obs. 175534280
Alchemilla orbiculata, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. b Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160593314
Alchemilla orbiculata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. c Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144783673
Alchemilla orbiculata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. d Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143072607
Alchemilla orbiculata, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. e Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142256871
Alchemilla orbiculata, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. f Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 65907692
Alchemilla orbiculata, photographed by Andrew J. Crawford
fig. g Andrew J. Crawford, CC0 1.0 / obs. 29175038
Alchemilla orbiculata, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. h Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12030606

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Alchemilla orbiculata is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBoliviaColombiaEcuadorPeru
Native distribution of Alchemilla orbiculata, 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
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER

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 584 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.3 °C 3.8 °C 8.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 9.8 °C 12.7 °C 18.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,189 mm 2,123 mm 3,116 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 86 mm 235 mm 444 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 584 research-grade observations of Alchemilla orbiculata 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 6 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 ciliata Willd. ex Steud.
  • Alchemilla orbiculata f. villifera Rothm.
  • Alchemilla orbiculata var. villifera L.M.Perry
  • Alchemilla rotundifolia Ruiz & Pav. ex Rothm.
  • Aphanes orbiculata (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.
  • Lachemilla orbiculata (Ruiz & Pav.) Rydb.

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.