| Potentilla hookeriana Lehm. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Potentilla nivea var. hookeriana (Lehm.) T. Wolf., Potentilla nivea subsp. hookeriana (Lehm.) Hiitonen | ||
| Description | Stems from thick caudex; lower leaves ternate, green and villous above, densely tomentose and villous beneath; leaflets with long teeth, to nearly pinnatifid; apical tooth longer than adjacent lateral tooth; petioles more or less puberulent with long, straight, white hairs; bractlets lanceolate, obtuse, of same length as the acute, ovate sepals; petals yellow, obcordate, somewhat longer than sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Calcareous rocks. Described from North America. |
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.