Alchemilla mollis
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Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Alchemilla mollis's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation11 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility38 926 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI98 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics26 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Alchemilla mollis, the garden lady's-mantle or lady's-mantle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. This herbaceous perennial plant is native to southern Europe and grown throughout the world as an ornamental garden plant. It grows 30 to tall, with leaves that are palmately veined, with a scalloped and serrated margin. The stipules are noteworthy in that they are fused together and leaf like. The chartreuse yellow flowers are held in dense clusters above the foliage. A. mollis has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The plant self-seeds freely and can become invasive. According to some accounts, lady's mantle has been used for centuries as a herbal remedy. According to other authorities, however, it has never been used medicinally, but has been confused with two species that have a history of medicinal use: A. alpina (Alpine lady's mantle) and A. xanthochlora. Showing the beading effect of water on its leaves due to hydrophobicity The plant is often grown as groundcover, and is valued for the appearance of its leaves in wet weather. Water beads on the leaves due to their dewetting properties. These beads of water were considered by alchemists to be the purest form of water. They used this water in their quest to turn base metal into gold, hence the name Alchemilla. The Latin specific epithet mollis means "soft", referring to the hairs on the leaves. Lady's mantle is an invasive species in the Faroe Islands, where local authorities have encouraged the public to uproot the plant if they find it.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology6
Life cycle & reproduction9
Diet & foraging2
Habitat & environment7
Physiology & chemistry3
Other traits1
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Alchemilla mollis has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Alchemilla mollis carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type38 926 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions35 of 70 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| DBF-NHMDlocation not on record | 230 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 81 |
| Olocation not on record | 54 |
| LDlocation not on record | 52 |
| BFLlocation not on record | 36 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 31 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 19 |
| Tartu, EE | 18 |
| Vancouver, CA | 15 |
| Trondheim, NO | 15 |
| TROMlocation not on record | 13 |
| KMNlocation not on record | 11 |
| Zürich, CH | 9 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 9 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 8 |
| Helsinki, FI | 8 |
| Salzburg, AT | 8 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 8 |
| Bergen, NO | 7 |
| Auckland, NZ | 6 |
| LfUlocation not on record | 6 |
| Wlocation not on record | 6 |
| Mlocation not on record | 5 |
| Uppsala, SE | 5 |
| PrivatHerblocation not on record | 5 |
| Stockholm, SE | 5 |
| Zürich, CH | 4 |
| Denver, US | 4 |
| Nijmegen, NL | 4 |
| H-Schuhwlocation not on record | 4 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 3 |
| inatura Erlebnis Naturschau GmbHlocation not on record | 3 |
| Görlitz, DE | 3 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 3 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 3 |
| University of British Columbia, Herbariumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Tromso University Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| South Kensington, GB | 3 |
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| Umeå Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 2 |
| BSBIlocation not on record | 2 |
| Garðabær, IS | 2 |
| H-Hohlalocation not on record | 2 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 2 |
| NoColllocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowielocation not on record | 1 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 1 |
| Saint Louis, US | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| New Haven, US | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Lausanne, CH | 1 |
| Xiamen, CN | 1 |
| Berlin, DE | 1 |
| John May Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| nbflocation not on record | 1 |
| Oulu, FI | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Dresden, DE | 1 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 1 |
| Turku, FI | 1 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record | 1 |
| Brussel, BE | 1 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Portland, US | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Alchemilla mollis was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.