Potentilla supina |
Potentilla elegans |
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bushy cinquefoil, spreading cinquefoil |
elegant cinquefoil, silverweed |
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Habit | Plants densely tufted to cushion-forming; caudex branches usually short, stout, sometimes embedded in old leaves. | |
Stems | erect, 0.1–0.5 dm, lengths 1–2 times leaves. |
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Basal leaves | not in ranks, ternate, 0.5–2.5(–4) cm; stipules: apex acute to obtuse; petiole 0.2–1.8(–2.5) cm, long hairs ± sparse, ± spreading, 0.2–1 mm, weak, glands sparse to abundant; leaflets 3, central obtriangular to flabellate, 0.5–0.7(–1) × 0.5–0.7 cm, petiolule 0–0.5 mm, margins flat, distal 3/4+ deeply 3–5-lobed (sinuses extending 2/3–3/4 to midvein), lobes unevenly incised 1/4–1/2 to midvein, teeth 1–3(–5) per lobe, surfaces similar, green, brownish, or reddish, hairs absent or sparse, 0.2–0.5 mm, glands sparse to common (also densely punctate-glandular). |
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Inflorescences | 1-flowered. |
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Pedicels | straight or ± curved, 0–0.5(–2) cm in flower, to 5 cm in fruit. |
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Flowers | epicalyx bractlets linear, elliptic, or obovate, 2–2.2 × 0.8–1.1 mm, margins flat; hypanthium 2.5–3.5 mm diam.; sepals 2.2–2.5 mm, apex broadly acute to obtuse; petals pale yellow, 3–3.5 × 3–3.5 mm; filaments 1–1.5 mm, anthers 0.3–0.4 mm; carpels 20–25, styles ± columnar, not papillate-swollen proximally, 0.7–0.9 mm. |
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Achenes | 1.2 mm. |
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2n | = 14, 28 (Russian Far East). |
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Potentilla supina |
Potentilla elegans |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | |
Habitat | Rock crevices, blocky scree, mountain summits, mostly on acidic bedrock | |
Elevation | 100–1600 m (300–5200 ft) | |
Distribution |
CO; IA; ID; IL; KS; LA; MI; MN; MO; MT; ND; NE; NM; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; SD; TX; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; ON; SK; Mexico; Eurasia; Africa [Introduced in Australia]
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AK; BC; NT; YT; e Asia (Russian Far East) |
Discussion | Subspecies 7 (1 in the flora). The status of Potentilla supina in North America is open to question, given the otherwise Eurasian and northern African distribution of the species and ease of transport by migratory waterfowl. Although North American material has commonly been treated as a distinct species (P. paradoxa), E. Hultén and M. Fries (1986) went so far as to consider P. supina introduced in North America. The use of subspecies within a broadly defined P. supina follows J. Soják (1987, 1993) and is also adopted by A. Kurtto et al. (in J. Jalas et al. 1972+, vol. 13). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
For present purposes, Potentilla elegans is treated in sect. Aureae, as was done by B. C. Johnston (1985), largely on the basis of pragmatism. J. Soják (1994) places the species instead in sect. Dumosae Soják, which otherwise comprises several Himalayan species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 139. | FNA vol. 9, p. 194. |
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Potentilla > sect. Rivales | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Potentilla > sect. Aureae |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 497. (1753) | Chamisso & Schlechtendal: Linnaea 2: 22. (1827) |
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