| Potentilla uniflora Ledeb. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Potentilla vulcanicola Juz., Potentilla ledebouriana Pors. | ||
| Description | Densely tufted, caudex covered with dark-brown, marcescent stipules; basal leaves 3-foliate; leaflets with 57 long, somewhat acute teeth, pubescent with long, silky hairs above, tomentose and long-haired beneath, especially on nerves; petioles with long, spreading, white hairs; flowers solitary or sometimes 2, large; bractlets and sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; petals yellow, obcordate; style filiform. | ||
| Ecology | Rocks, scree slopes, ridges. Type locality given first (erroneously) as Dahuria, later corrected to St. Lawrence Bay, Chukchi Peninsula. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Highly variable; probably forms hybrids with P. villosa and P. Vahliana, and perhaps with others as well. (See color section.) |
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.