| Potentilla diversifolia Lehm. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with long, branching caudex; basal leaves long-petiolated, digitate or semipinnate to pinnate, glabrous or strigose; leaflets 5-7, cuneate-oblanceolate, deeply toothed; stem erect, slender; cauline leaves 1-2; inflorescence open; bractlets lanceolate, acute; sepals ovate-lanceolate; petals yellow, obcordate; style subapical, slender, mich longer than achenes. | ||
| Ecology | Alpme meadaws, solifluction soil, in the mountains to at least 2,000 meters. Type locality not given. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Specimens with digitate leaves, nearly glabrous above, predominate (var. glau- cophylla Lehm.). High alpine plants with densely sericeous-strigose leaves, occur rarely. The Greenland area marked on the map represents subsp. raniinculus (Lange) Pors. (P. ranunculus Lange). |
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.