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Alchemilla mollis

Planted flowering plant in The Eden Project, Cornwall, UK.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 26/06/2013, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Leaf of cultivated plant, The Eden Project, Cornwall, UK.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 26/06/2013, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Flowers of garden plant, Forres St, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 18/12/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Flowering and fruiting plant wild on railway ballast, MOTAT 2, Auckland.<br>Photographer: Peter J. de Lange, Date taken: 30/12/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Foliage detail, MOTAT 2, Auckland.<br>Photographer: Peter J. de Lange, Date taken: 30/12/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

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Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Green, Yellow

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Rosaceae

Authority

Alchemilla mollis (Buser) Rothm.

Ecology

Year naturalised

2005

Reason for introduction

Ornamental

Other information

Etymology

alchemilla: From the Arabic alkemelych ‘alchemy’, alluding to the use of plants on alchemy

mollis: Soft

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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