| Potentilla gracilis Dougl. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Potentilla gracilis subsp. nuttallii (Lehm.) Keck., Potentilla alaskana Rydb., Potentilla blaschkeana Turcz., Potentilla nuttallii Lehm. | ||
| Description | Stems from short caudex; basal leaves digitate, with 5-7 cuneate-oblanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, coarsely toothed leaflets, green above, more or less white- tomentose beneath; bractlets lanceolate, slightly shorter than the ovate, acuminate sepals; petals yellow obcordate; style subaplcal glandular-verrucose at base. | ||
| Ecology | Roadsides, waste places; probably introduced. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Clrcumpolar map indicates range of P. gracilis in a broad sense. |
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.