Potentilla nivea

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderRosales
5. FamilyRosaceae

Native toAlaska, Alberta, Altay, Arizona, Austria, British Columbia, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Colorado, East European Russia, Finland

Observations recorded10,280

Herbs perennial. Roots terete. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 5–25 cm tall, together with petioles white tomentose. Radical leaves 1.5–8 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially sparsely pilose or glabrescent; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets sessile or sometimes terminal one shortly petiolulate, ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 1–2 × 0.8–1.3 cm, abaxially white tomentose, inconspicuously veined, adaxially appressed pilose, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin obtusely 3–6(or 7)-crenate or (6 or)7–14-serrate on each side, apex obtuse or acute; cauline leaves 1 or 2; stipules green, ovate, herbaceous, abaxially densely white tomentose, margin usually entire, rarely serrate; leaflets smaller than those of radical leaves. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, few flowered, rarely a solitary flower. Flowers 1–1.8 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–2 cm, white tomentose. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acuminate or acute; epicalyx segments linear-lanceolate, shorter than sepals, abaxially spreading sericeous-pilose, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, obovate, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, base thickened and papillate, or inconspicuously thickened; stigma dilated. Achenes smooth. Fl. a

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

2,705

With media

2,422

Family

Rosaceae

Collections

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, RSA, QUE, CMN, NY

Recorded in

Canada, United States

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Subclass of

herbaceous plant

Parent taxon

Potentilla

Image

Fingerkraut 'Potentilla nivea' 5806.JPG

Has use

medicinal plant

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