Potentilla newberryi |
Potentilla stipularis |
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Newberry's cinquefoil |
stipulate cinquefoil, stipulated cinquefoil |
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Glands | mostly absent. |
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Stems | (0.2–)1–2.5(–3.5) dm. |
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Basal leaves | petiole 1–3.5 cm, long hairs ± abundant, 0.5–1.5 mm, short hairs absent or sparse, rarely common; leaflets 0.2–1 cm, lobes oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, (0.5–)1–2 mm wide, longs hairs ± abundant, short hairs absent or sparse, glands sparse to abundant. |
3–7(–10) cm; petiole 2–5(–7.5) cm, hairs absent or sparse, appressed to spreading, 0.5–0.8 mm, stiff, glands absent or nearly so; leaflets 7–11, central one oblanceolate-elliptic, 1–2(–3) × 0.3–0.8 cm, distal 1/4 or less of margin incised less than 1/10(–1/4) to midvein, teeth 1–2(–5) per side, surfaces similar, abaxial pale green to reddish, often glaucous, hairs absent or sparse to common on primary veins, appressed to ascending, 0.6–1 mm, stiff, adaxial green or reddish, glabrous or nearly so. |
Cauline leaves | 1–3; stipules fused with all or most of petiole, free portion shorter than fused portion. |
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Inflorescences | 2–5-flowered. |
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Pedicels | 1–3 cm (proximalmost to 6 cm). |
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Flowers | epicalyx bractlets broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 1.5–4(–5) × (0.4–)0.8–1.3 mm; sepals 2–4(–5) mm, apex ± acute; petals (3–)4–6 × (2–)3–5 mm; filaments 1–2(–2.5) mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; carpels 20–50. |
epicalyx bractlets lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 3–5 × 0.7–1(–1.5) mm; hypanthium 2.5–3 mm diam.; sepals 4–6 mm, apex acute; petals (4–)6–8 × 4–6 mm; filaments 1.6–2 mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; carpels 40–50, styles 0.7–0.9 mm. |
Achenes | 0.9–1.2 mm. |
1.1–1.3 mm, smooth. |
2n | = 28 (Eurasia). |
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Potentilla newberryi |
Potentilla stipularis |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Moist, sandy to clayey, more or less alkaline soil, especially where seasonally inundated near streams, ponds, and lakes | Herb meadows, alluvial meadows and flats, open shrub thickets, Salix-Dryas tundra |
Elevation | 1300–1800 m (4300–5900 ft) | 10–600 m (0–2000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; NV; OR; WA
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AK; Greenland; Eurasia |
Discussion | Potentilla newberryi grows in valley bottoms in south-central Oregon, northeastern California, and northwestern Nevada. The only specimen supposedly collected in south-central Washington (W. N. Suksdorf 2718, WTU) was gathered in 1898. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
The occurrences of Potentilla stipularis in Alaska are a continuation of the range from Asia. The six known occurrences in eastern and northeastern Greenland are disjunct (A. E. Porsild 1964) and were assigned to var. groenlandica by Sørensen, differing from Asian and Alaskan counterparts mainly in quantitative features: 9–11 leaflets, 7–11 teeth per leaflet, and not conspicuously glaucous (G. Halliday, pers. comm.). Here var. groenlandica is considered a high-arctic ecotype that provisionally is not accepted taxonomically. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 137. | FNA vol. 9, p. 147. |
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Potentilla > sect. Arenicolae | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Potentilla > sect. Chrysanthae |
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Synonyms | Ivesia gracilis | P. stipularis var. groenlandica |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 532. (1865) — not P. gracilis Douglas ex Hooker 1830 | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 498. (1753) |
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