| Potentilla fruticosa L. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Dasiphora fruticosa (L.) Rydb., Potentilla floribunda Pursh, Pentaphylloides floribunda (Pursh) Love. | ||
| Common name | shrubby cinquefoil | ||
| Description | Shrub with spreading or erect branches, up to 1.7 meters tall in central Alaska; leaves mostly with 5 entire, lanceolate or oblanceolate, glabrous to villous leaflets; flowers single in axils; calyx villous; bracteoles elliptic to lanceolate, as long as calyx lobes or longer; petals yellow, rounded; carpels densely villous; styles clavate, attached below middle of carpel. | ||
| Ecology | Both wet and dry ground, forests, heaths, muskeg, scree slopes, in the mountains to at least 1,500 meters. Described from Portugal, England, island of Oeland (Swe- den), and Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A highly variable species. 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.