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Alchemilla xanthochlora (Lady's Mantle)

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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Apomictic
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  A useful ground cover plant, though somewhat slow to spread;
Height [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [2]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Alchemilla xanthochlora

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Berchtesgaden Alps National Park II 51433 Germany
Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve   Scotland, United Kingdom
Kejimkujik National Park II 94203 Nova Scotia, Canada
Kosciuszko National Park II 1705480 New South Wales, Australia

Ecosystems

Predators

Cheilosia vicina[4]
Coleroa alchemillae[4]
Leuronota acutipennis[5]
Podosphaera aphanis[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cheilosia vicina[4]
Coleroa alchemillae[4]
Podosphaera aphanis[4]
Trachyspora alchemillae[6]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ecology of Commanster
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0