| Potentilla biflora Willd. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | ‘Root thick, woody; caudex branched, thickly covered with brown, marcescent leaf bases; basal leaves with linear, stiff, acute lobes, revolute in margin, sparsely pubescent with long white hairs; stipules large, adnate to petioles, with lanceolate free apex; stem with reduced leaves; bractlets ovate-lanceolate, about as long as the triangular, acute sepals; petals obcordate, longer than sepals, yellow; style long, filiform; achenes glabrous; receptacle profusely white-pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Rocks and rocky slopes, heaths, in the mountains to at least 2,000 meters. De- scribed from eastern Siberia. |
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.