| Potentilla nivea L. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Stems from brown caudex; leaves ternate, green above, white-tomentose be- neath, with 4-6 teeth on each side and long or short, tomentose petioles, lacking straight hairs; bractlets linear, mostly somewhat shorter than calyx lobes; petals yellow, obcordate, longer than calyx; style subapical, thicker and papillate at base, shorter than nutlet. | ||
| Ecology | Calcareous rocks. Described from the mountains of Lapland and Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Some specimens have the leaves tomentose above as well as below (var. tomen- tosa Nilsson-Ehle) . Specimens with tomentum and straight hairs on the petioles and on the underside of the leaves are considered to be the hybrid P. nivea X Hook- eriana (P. nivea subsp. fallax Pors.). |
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.