| Potentilla pulchella R. Br. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Plant with long, central root; caudex branched, blackish-brown, with marcescent remains of leaf bases; basal leaves short-petiolated, with 2 pairs of lateral leaflets (rarely with a small third pair), covered above with long, straight hairs, tomentose and long-haired beneath; leaflets deeply cleft into long, lanceolate, acute lobes; stem pubescent, short, decumbent or ascending, not much overtopping leaves; bract- lets and sepals of about same length; petals yellow, narrowly obovate, emarginate, barely longer than sepals; receptacle short-haired; nutlets glabrous, with style much thicker at base. | ||
| Ecology | Polygon soil, open sandy places. |
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.