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Potentilla villosa var. unifoliolosa Hultén Potentilla nivea , called the snow cinquefoil , snowy cinquefoil , and villous cinquefoil , is a species of flowering plant in the genus Potentilla , native to Subarctic Asia, North America, Greenland, and Europe, and the Subalpine Rockies and Alps.
Like most Potentilla species, its flowers have five bright yellow petals, 15 stamens, and numerous separate pistils, and are adapted for generalist pollination. Each flower produces a cluster of achenes if successfully pollinated. [2] It is a taxonomically difficult species that appears to hybridize frequently with other Potentilla spp.
Potentilla versicolor is a herbaceous perennial or near-subshrub growing from a thick taproot or woody caudex. Its leaves are pinnately compound, with the leaflets deeply palmately divided, and may be covered in sparse, soft hairs. The exact shape of the leaf and the degree of hairiness can vary substantially between early-season leaves and ...
When first described (as Potentilla veitchii) in 1911, it was said to be similar to Potentilla fruticosa (now Dasiphora fruticosa), being distinguished mainly by its pure white flowers. It had grey-green foliage and could reach a height of 3 to 5 ft (0.9 to 1.5 m).
Dasiphora fruticosa subsp. fruticosa, Estonia. Dasiphora fruticosa is a species of hardy deciduous flowering shrub in the family Rosaceae, native to the cool temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere, often growing at high altitudes in mountains.
Potentilla / ˌ p oʊ t ən ˈ t ɪ l ə / [1] is a genus containing over 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae. Potentillas may also be called cinquefoils in English, but they have also been called five fingers and silverweeds .
Dasiphora is a genus of shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae, native to Asia, with one species D. fruticosa (shrubby cinquefoil), ranging across the entire cool temperate Northern Hemisphere. In the past, the genus was normally included in Potentilla as Potentilla sect. Rhopalostylae, [1] but genetic evidence has shown it to be distinct. [2] [3] [4]
Potentilla gordonii is a tuft-forming perennial plant which grows in rocky areas. It produces a clump of erect stems and tail-like leaves. It produces a clump of erect stems and tail-like leaves. Each leaf is a thick, rounded strip of small, green, lobed leaflets which overlap.