| Potentilla hyparctica Malte | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Potentilla emarginata Pursh | ||
| Description | Stems from branched caudex, covered with marcescent, reddish-brown stipules; leaves 3-foliate; leaflets obovate-cuneate, coarsely dentate, apical tooth longer than adjacent lateral tooth, pubescent with long, straight hairs on sides, and ciliate with long hairs; flowers 1-3, short-pedicellated, 1.5-2 ¢cm in diameter; bractlets oblong- lanceolate, blunt; calyx lobes oblong-ovate, blunt or acute; petals yellow, obcord- ate, emarginate; style nearly apical, linear or slightly clavate. | ||
| Ecology | On tundra and in the mountains, snowbeds, to about 2,300 meters in the St. Elias Mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The specimens from the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea islands and some of those from the mountains are small dwarfed plants, otherwise similar to P. hyparctica, they are subsp. nana (Willd.) Hult. (P. nana Willd.), but might be simply an alpine extreme of P. hyparctica. |
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.