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Lady's-mantles
Alchemilla
Alchemilla is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Rosaceae, with the common name "lady's mantle" applied generically as well as specifically to Alchemilla mollis when referred to as garden plant, the plant used as herbal tea or for medicinal usage such as gynaecological disorders is Alchemilla xanthochlora or in Middle Europe the so-called common lady's mantle Alchemilla vulgaris. There are about 300 species, the majority native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of...
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Alchemilla Sect. Erectae
sectionErectae
Alchemilla
sectionAlchemilla
Parsley-pierts
sectionAphanes
Alpinae
sectionAlpinae
Plicatae
sectionPlicatae
Alchemilla orbiculata
speciesAlchemilla orbiculata
sillu sillu
speciesAlchemilla pinnata
Ultravulgares
sectionUltravulgares
Coriaceae
sectionCoriaceae
Alchemilla procumbens
speciesAlchemilla procumbens
Glaciales
sectionGlaciales
Alchemilla hirsuticaulis
speciesAlchemilla hirsuticaulis
Alchemilla sericea
speciesAlchemilla sericea
Alchemilla pectinata
speciesAlchemilla pectinata
Alchemilla sarmatica
speciesAlchemilla sarmatica
Alchemilla diplophylla
speciesAlchemilla diplophylla
Alchemilla lindbergiana
speciesAlchemilla lindbergiana
Longicaules
sectionLongicaules
Parvifoliae
sectionParvifoliae
Pentaphylleae
sectionPentaphylleae
Calycinae
sectionCalycinae
Alchemilla tichomirovii
speciesAlchemilla tichomirovii
Alchemilla aphanoides
speciesAlchemilla aphanoides
Flabellatae
sectionFlabellatae
Alchemilla breviloba
speciesAlchemilla breviloba
Alchemilla hispidula
speciesAlchemilla hispidula
Alchemilla bungei
speciesAlchemilla bungei
Silvery Lady's-mantle
speciesAlchemilla plicatula
Geraniifoliae
sectionGeraniifoliae
Alchemilla conglobata
speciesAlchemilla conglobata
Alchemilla tubulosa
speciesAlchemilla tubulosa
Alchemilla sericata
speciesAlchemilla sericata
Alchemilla polylepis
speciesAlchemilla polylepis
Alchemilla semilunaris
speciesAlchemilla semilunaris
Alchemilla sibirica
speciesAlchemilla sibirica
Splendentes
sectionSplendentes
Alchemilla caucasica
speciesAlchemilla caucasica
Alchemilla glabricaulis
speciesAlchemilla glabricaulis
Alchemilla nivalis
speciesAlchemilla nivalis
Alchemilla substrigosa
speciesAlchemilla substrigosa
Alchemilla erythropoda
speciesAlchemilla erythropoda
Alchemilla vulcanica
speciesAlchemilla vulcanica
Murbeck’s alchemilla
speciesAlchemilla murbeckiana
Alchemilla argutiserrata
speciesAlchemilla argutiserrata
Alchemilla holocycla
speciesAlchemilla holocycla
Alchemilla catalaunica
speciesAlchemilla catalaunica
Alchemilla longipes
speciesAlchemilla longipes
Alchemilla leiophylla
speciesAlchemilla leiophylla
Alchemilla devestiens
speciesAlchemilla devestiens
Alchemilla cheirochlora
speciesAlchemilla cheirochlora
Alchemilla pustynensis
speciesAlchemilla pustynensis
Alchemilla haumanii
speciesAlchemilla haumanii
Alchemilla capensis
speciesAlchemilla capensis
Subcuneatifoliae
sectionSubcuneatifoliae
Alchemilla hybrida
speciesAlchemilla hybrida
Alchemilla bombycina
speciesAlchemilla bombycina
Alchemilla vorotnikovii
speciesAlchemilla vorotnikovii
Alchemilla altaica
speciesAlchemilla altaica
Alchemilla trichocrater
speciesAlchemilla trichocrater
Alchemilla persica
speciesAlchemilla persica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Junghans, Philipp Caspar: Philippi Caspari Ivnghans, Medicinae Doctoris, Medicinae Et Botanices Professor. Pvblic. Ordinar., Horti Regii Botanici Directoris Et Societatis Halensis Nat. Cvrios. Membri, Icones Plantarvm Officinalivm Ad Vitam Impressae. Centvria I.
Junghans, Philipp Caspar · 1792 · p.11
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.396
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.646
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.644
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.478
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Alchemilla in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56023.