Alchemilla vulgarisL.

WFO wfo-0001007689 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alchemilla vulgaris, photographed by alcesevropsky
fig. a alcesevropsky, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204436798
Alchemilla vulgaris, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. b Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201361925
Alchemilla vulgaris, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. c Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201507092
Alchemilla vulgaris, photographed by Paul Braun
fig. d Paul Braun, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199369318
Alchemilla vulgaris, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. e Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191354951
Alchemilla vulgaris, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. f Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190093515
Alchemilla vulgaris, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. g Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189870608
Alchemilla vulgaris, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. h Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172144166

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04768586
Filed as
Alchemilla vulgaris L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Alchemilla vulgaris is native: 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 AustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Alchemilla vulgaris, 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
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

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 627 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -14.3 °C -5.8 °C 1.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.1 °C 19.9 °C 23.4 °C
Annual rainfall 630 mm 951 mm 1,938 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 99 mm 171 mm 355 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 627 research-grade observations of Alchemilla vulgaris 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 36 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 acutangula Buser
  • Alchemilla acutangula f. autumnalis Snarskis
  • Alchemilla acutangula var. adpressepilosa H.Lindb.
  • Alchemilla acutangula var. micantoides Snarskis
  • Alchemilla acutangula var. typica Snarskis
  • Alchemilla acutiloba Buser
  • Alchemilla acutiloba Opiz
  • Alchemilla acutiloba f. adpressepilosa (H.Lindb.) Hyl.
  • Alchemilla acutiloba f. altissima Buser
  • Alchemilla acutiloba f. glabriuscula H.Wulff
  • Alchemilla acutiloba f. gracilior Bornm.
  • Alchemilla acutiloba f. intonsa S.E.Fröhner
  • Alchemilla acutiloba f. typica Buser
  • Alchemilla acutiloba subsp. pontica H.Wulff
  • Alchemilla acutiloba var. pontica Buser
  • Alchemilla acutiloba var. stellata Poelt
  • Alchemilla latifolia Salisb.
  • Alchemilla palmata subsp. acutangula (Buser) Palitz
  • Alchemilla pontica (Buser) K.Malý
  • Alchemilla pratensis f. aestivalis Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pratensis f. autumnalis Snarskis
  • Alchemilla pratensis var. acutangula (Buser) Schinz & R.Keller
  • Alchemilla pratensis var. vulgaris Schinz & R.Keller
  • Alchemilla sylvestris var. acutangula (Buser) Hayek

and 12 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. 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.