| Potentilla anserina L. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Common name | silverweed | ||
| Description | Stoloniferous; stolons pubescent; leaves all basal, more or less prostrate, inter- ruptedly pinnate, with numerous pairs of leaflets, deeply and sharply serrate, green and glabrous or silver-silky above [f. sericea (Hayne) Hayek (P. anserina var. sericea Hayne) ], silky-tomentose beneath; peduncles solitary, 1-flowered; bractlets lanceolate or triangular, more or less toothed; calyx lobes broader than bractlets; petals yellow; achenes with shallow furrow on back. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; introduced. Described from Europe. |
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.