| Potentilla fragifermis Willd. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Stems branched above, from thick caudex, covered with remains of petioles; basal leaves cordate in outline, 3-foliate; leaflets sessile; obovate with cuneate base and 3-5 rounded teeth on each side, spreading, soft-pubescent on both sides; flow- ers 20-30 mm in diameter; bractlets ovate, somewhat acute, as long as the ovate calyx lobes or somewhat shorter; calyx in fruit about double its earlier size; petals large, obcordate, deeply emarginate, clear yellow; style nearly apical, only slightly thicker at base. | ||
| Ecology | Grassy slopes. Described from the Aleutian Islands (where it almost certainly does not occur). Total range uncertain because of closely related but taxonomically unclear species. |
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.