Potentilla stipularis L.
 
FamilyRosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae
DescriptionStems from thin caudex; basal leaves glabrous, palmate, with 7-9 oblanceolate to linear leaflets, more or less toothed in apex; petioles long, slender; basal stipules small, with lanceolate auricles; stem leaves gradually reduced, with very large, ovate to oblong stipules; bractlets linear, shorter than the triangular, ciliate calyx lobes; petals yellow, somewhat longer than calyx; style apical, about as long as nutlet.
EcologyMeadows, banks of streams.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.