Potentilla subviscosa |
Potentilla robbinsiana |
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Mogollon cinquefoil, Navajo cinquefoil |
dwarf mountain cinquefoil, Robbins' cinquefoil, White Mountains cinquefoil |
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Habit | Plants tufted to densely matted; caudex branches short, ± slender, often embedded in old leaf bases. | |||||
Stems | 0.2–1.5(–2) dm. |
spreading to erect, 0.1–0.4 dm, lengths 1–2 times basal leaves. |
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Basal leaves | palmate, rarely ternate, (1–)2–7(–18) cm; petiole (0.5–)1–5(–11) cm, long hairs sparse to abundant, ± spreading (to ascending), 1–3(–4) mm, ± weak, glands ± abundant; leaflets (3–)5(–7), central flabellate to obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate, (0.5–)1–3(–8) × 0.5–2 cm, not or ± petiolulate, distal 2/3–3/4 of margins evenly to unevenly incised 1/5–3/4 to midvein, sometimes deeply lobed as well, teeth 2–9 per side (some secondarily toothed as well), surfaces green, long hairs sparse to common, 1–2 mm (late-season leaves and adaxial surfaces sometimes nearly glabrate), glands sparse to abundant. |
not in ranks, ternate, 1–2 cm; stipules: apex broadly acute; petiole 0.7–3 cm, long hairs sparse to abundant, spreading to subappresed, 0.2–2 mm, weak, glands sparse to common; leaflets 3, central obovate, 0.5–1.3 × 0.2–1 cm, petiolule 0–1 mm, margins flat to ± revolute, not lobed, distal ± 2/3 evenly incised ± 1/2 to midvein, teeth 2–4(–5) per side, surfaces similar, green, hairs ± abundant (or nearly absent adaxially), 0.5–1 mm, glands sparse to common. |
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Inflorescences | (1–)3–15-flowered. |
1(–2)-flowered. |
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Pedicels | 0.5–1.5(–2) cm. |
straight, 0.5–3 cm, not much longer in fruit than in flower. |
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Flowers | epicalyx bractlets lanceolate-elliptic, 1.5–3(–5) × 0.5–1.5 mm; hypanthium 2.5–4 mm diam.; sepals (2.5–)3–5(–6) mm, apex ± acute; petals nearly white abaxially, pale yellow adaxially, narrowly obcordate, 3–6(–8) × 2.5–5 mm; filaments 1.5–2.5 mm, anthers 0.5–1 mm; carpels 4–12, styles 2–3 mm. |
epicalyx bractlets oblong to elliptic, (1.8–)2–2.5(–3) × 0.7–1.2(–1.4) mm, ± equal to sepals, margins flat to ± revolute; hypanthium (4–)5–7 mm diam.; sepals (1.8–)2–2.5(–3) mm, apex broadly acute; petals yellow, 2–3 × 2–3 mm; filaments 0.5–1 mm, anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; carpels 20–30, styles columnar-tapered, sometimes ± papillate-swollen in proximal 1/3–1/2, 0.8–1 mm. |
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Achenes | 1.5–2 mm, ± rugose. |
1–1.3 mm. |
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Short | hairs well differentiated from long hairs, ± abundant to dense throughout. |
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2n | = 49. |
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Potentilla subviscosa |
Potentilla robbinsiana |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||
Habitat | Moist rocky slopes and flats, in montane tundra | |||||
Elevation | 1400–1600 m (4600–5200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM
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NH; VT |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Potentilla robbinsiana is known only from two sites in the White Mountains, Monroe County, New Hampshire, and is reported in Vermont. Additional populations have been established nearby as a result of transplant efforts. Listed in 1980 as a federally endangered species, an intense recovery program resulted in the species being delisted in 2002. Some early specimens were distributed as Potentilla frigida Villars, a similar European species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 184. | FNA vol. 9, p. 194. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Potentilla > sect. Subviscosae | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Potentilla > sect. Aureae | ||||
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Synonyms | P. minima var. robbinsiana, P. hyparctica subsp. robbinsiana | |||||
Name authority | Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 8: 97. (1881) | (Lehmann) Oakes ex Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 304. (1896) | ||||
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