Alchemilla subcrenataBuser

broadtooth lady's mantle

WFO wfo-0001003291 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, 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 subcrenata, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. a Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-12 / obs. 135670976
Alchemilla subcrenata, photographed by Maxim Shashkov
fig. b Maxim Shashkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77399303
Alchemilla subcrenata, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. c Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 39993074
Alchemilla subcrenata, photographed by Maxim Shashkov
fig. d Maxim Shashkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77399291
Alchemilla subcrenata, photographed by Марина Давлетшина
fig. e Марина Давлетшина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155880275
Alchemilla subcrenata, photographed by Étienne Léveillé-Bourret
fig. f Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149287483
Alchemilla subcrenata, photographed by Noskova Elizaveta
fig. g Noskova Elizaveta, CC0 1.0 / obs. 89731452
Alchemilla subcrenata, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80453976

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Alchemilla subcrenata is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaIrkutskKrasnoyarskTuvaWest SiberiaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyIcelandItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Alchemilla subcrenata, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Iceland ICE
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Irkutsk IRK
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB

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 148 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.7 °C -11.3 °C -3.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 13.5 °C 22.0 °C 23.8 °C
Annual rainfall 547 mm 714 mm 1,660 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 71 mm 111 mm 285 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 148 research-grade observations of Alchemilla subcrenata 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 15 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 palmata subsp. subcrenata (Buser) Palitz
  • Alchemilla subcrenata f. adpressepilosa Snarskis
  • Alchemilla subcrenata f. autumnalis Snarskis
  • Alchemilla subcrenata f. submamillata (Juz.) V.N.Tikhom.
  • Alchemilla subcrenata f. typica Snarskis
  • Alchemilla subcrenata f. vernalis Snarskis
  • Alchemilla submamillata Juz.
  • Alchemilla sylvestris var. subcrenata (Buser) Hayek
  • Alchemilla triformiloba Hudziok
  • Alchemilla vulgaris f. subcrenata (Buser) Bolzon
  • Alchemilla vulgaris prol. subcrenata (Buser) E.G.Camus
  • Alchemilla vulgaris subsp. subcrenata (Buser) Murb.
  • Alchemilla vulgaris var. subcrenata (Buser) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Alchemilla vulgaris var. subcrenata (Buser) Briq.
  • Potentilla subcrenata (Buser) 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. 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.