Potentilla pseudosericea |
Potentilla thuringiaca |
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Mono cinquefoil, Pennsylvania cinquefoil, silky cinquefoil, strigose cinquefoil |
European cinquefoil, German cinquefoil, potentille de thuringe |
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Glands | sparse, uncolored, minute. |
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Caudex branches | sometimes sheathed with marcescent whole leaves. |
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Stems | decumbent to ascending, (0.2–)0.5–1.5(–2.2) dm. |
1.5–5(–7) dm. |
Basal leaves | usually palmate, rarely also ternate on same plant or subpalmate, (1–)2–6(–8) cm; petiole (0.5–)1–2.5 cm, long hairs abundant to dense, ± appressed, 0.5–1.2 mm, stiff, verrucose, crisped hairs common, cottony hairs absent, glands sparse to abundant but usually obscured; leaflets (3–)5–7, proximalmost separated by 0–2 mm, central ± obovate, (0.5–)1–1.5(–2) × (0.3–)0.5–0.8(–1) cm, petiolules 0–1 mm, distal 3/4 to nearly whole margin incised 3/4+ to midvein, teeth 2–4(–5) per side, (2–)3–6(–10) mm, apical tufts 0.5 mm, abaxial surfaces white, long hairs common to abundant, cottony-crisped hairs dense, short hairs and glands absent or obscured, adaxial grayish green, long hairs abundant, 0.5–1.5 mm, ± stiff, short-crisped (rarely ± cottony) hairs sparse to common, glands absent or sparse. |
4–25(–35) cm; petiole 2–20(–25) cm, hairs sparse to common, ± spreading, 1–2.5 mm, weak, glands absent or sparse; leaflets 5–7(–9), central one narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, 1–6(–9) × 0.5–2 cm, distal 2/3–3/4+ of margin incised 1/4–1/3(–1/2) to midvein, teeth (4–)6–10(–13) per side, surfaces ± similar, abaxial green to pale green, hairs sparse to common on primary veins, ascending to spreading, 0.5–1.5 mm, weak, adaxial green, hairs more appressed and shorter. |
Cauline leaves | 1–3. |
1–3; stipules fused with less than 1/3 of petiole, free portion longer than fused portion. |
Inflorescences | (1–)3–10(–20)-flowered, congested or ± elongating in fruit, branch angle 5–30°. |
5–20-flowered. |
Pedicels | 0.2–0.7 cm, proximal to 1.3 cm. |
1–3 cm (proximalmost to 5 cm). |
Flowers | epicalyx bractlets narrowly elliptic, (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) × 0.5–1 mm; hypanthium 3–4 mm diam.; sepals 2–4(–5) mm, apex obtuse to bluntly acute, glands sparse, obscured; petals pale yellow, not overlapping, 2–4 × 2–3 mm, ± equal to sepals (slightly longer than in Inyo County); filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.3–0.5 mm; carpels 30–50, styles 1–1.2 mm. |
epicalyx bractlets linear to lanceolate, 3–8 × 1–1.5(–2) mm; hypanthium 3–5 mm diam.; sepals 3–5 mm, apex ± acute; petals (5–)8–10 × 4–10 mm; filaments 0.3–1.5 mm, anthers 0.7–0.9 mm; carpels 35–50, styles 1.1–1.3 mm. |
Achenes | 1–1.4 mm. |
1–1.2 mm, faintly rugose. |
2n | = 42, 56 (Eurasia). |
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Potentilla pseudosericea |
Potentilla thuringiaca |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring–summer. |
Habitat | Alpine fellfields, moist gravel, talus, on dolomite and quartzite | Edges of and openings in hardwood and conifer woodlands |
Elevation | 3200–3600 m (10500–11800 ft) | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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RI; QC; Eurasia [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Potentilla pseudosericea is currently confirmed only from the central Sierra Nevada and Sweetwater and White mountains of California (B. Ertter 2008). The species is similar to P. modesta but has a more tightly strigose, silvery vestiture and more numerous and deeply incised leaflets. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Potentilla thuringiaca might be mistaken for the more widely established P. intermedia of sect. Terminales. In addition to having flowering stems lateral to persistent basal leaves, P. thuringiaca has much larger petals (mostly 8–10 mm versus 4–5 mm), 5–9 leaflets, and tubercles at the bases of the long, spreading hairs. To the Quebec records (and subsequent collections) reported by R. Cayouette (1966) is added Block Island, Rhode Island (Fernald et al. 9650, GH). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 209. | FNA vol. 9, p. 146. |
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Potentilla > sect. Rubricaules | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Potentilla > sect. Chrysanthae |
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Synonyms | P. chrysantha subsp. thuringiaca, P. goldbachii, P. nestleriana | |
Name authority | Rydberg: Monogr. N. Amer. Potentilleae, 98, plate 36, figs. 1–5. (1898) | Bernhardi ex Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 64. (1822) |
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