| Potentilla biennis Greene | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Annual or biennial with slender taproot; stems glandular-puberulent and hirsute, mostly single, erect, with ascending branches; leaves mostly cauline, hirsute, with 3—4 obovate to oblanceolate, coarsely toothed, coarsely crenate-serrate leaflets; calyx glandular-puberulent and hirsute; bractlets lanceolate, shorter than calyx lobes; calyx lobes erect, ovate-triangular; petals yellow, cuneate-obovate, about half as long as sepals; style terminal, thickened at base; achenes yellow. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; once found introduced at Dawson. Described from California. |
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.