UW Burke Herbarium species comparison

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Potentilla newberryi

Potentilla hyparctica

Newberry's cinquefoil

subarctic cinquefoil

Potentilla newberryi

Potentilla hyparctica
Flowering time April-May June-August
Habitat Vernal pools, shores, and mudflats. Alpine rocky slopes, talus, heath, turf, and snowmelt meadows, often acidic.
Distribution
Known historically (1898) from the Columbia River Gorge in Washington, now likely extirpated; central Oregon to California, east to northwestern Nevada.
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Known only from west of the Cascades crest in Whatcom County in Washington; Alaska to Washington, also south to south-central Montana and Wyoming; circumboreal.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Historical in Washington (WANHP) Not of concern
Sibling taxa
P. anserina, P. argentea, P. biennis, P. breweri, P. drummondii, P. flabellifolia, P. glaucophylla, P. gracilis, P. hyparctica, P. jepsonii, P. nivea, P. norvegica, P. pensylvanica, P. recta, P. rivalis, P. supina, P. villosa
P. anserina, P. argentea, P. biennis, P. breweri, P. drummondii, P. flabellifolia, P. glaucophylla, P. gracilis, P. jepsonii, P. newberryi, P. nivea, P. norvegica, P. pensylvanica, P. recta, P. rivalis, P. supina, P. villosa
Subordinate taxa
P. hyparctica ssp. elatior
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