| Potentilla multifida L. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Plant decumbent or erect; stems from thick, short, dark-brown caudex; basal leaves pinnate; leaflets 5-7, dissected into mostly narrow segments with revolute margin, green above, tomentose beneath; cauline leaves reduced; calyx with long, white, soft hairs; bractlets linear, acute, about as long as the ovate-triangular sepals; petals yellow, nearly orbicular, about as long as sepals; receptacle sparsely white- haired; style not distinctly incrassated at base, not verrucose. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes, gravel bars, scree slopes, open ground. Described from “Siberia, Tartaria, and Asia Minor.” | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map indicates range of entire species complex. |
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.