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Thinstem lady's mantle

Alchemilla filicaulis

Also called Hairy Lady's Mantle, Slender Lady's Mantle, Thin Stemmed Lady's Mantle, Thread Stemmed Lady's Mantle, Thin Stem Lady's Mantle, Thread Stemmed Lady’s Mantle

Thinstem lady's mantle
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0

Thinstem lady's mantle is a small perennial of cool subalpine and subarctic habitats, native to parts of Europe, Siberia and North America. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it prefers cool, moist, well-drained conditions.

Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Moist but well-drained, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
5–20 °C; tolerates hard frost in the wild.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Subarctic America to Wyoming, Subarctic & Subalpine Europe to W. Siberia
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Alchemilla filicaulis is a species of plants belonging to the family Rosaceae.

It is native to Europe and Northern America. It is a known host species to at least two species of pathogenic fungi, Peronospora potentillae and Ramularia aplospora.

Other Alchemilla plants

Alpine Lady's-mantle · Alchemilla angustata · Rose Family · Baltic Lady's Mantle · Alchemilla barbatiflora · Alchemilla bursensis · Alchemilla cymatophylla · Diadem Lady's Mantle · Alchemilla erythropoda · Faeroeic Lady's Mantle · Alchemilla flabellata · Smooth lady's mantle

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Alchemilla filicaulis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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