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Potentilla

Potentilla
Family: Rosaceae
Potentilla image
Max Licher
  • Gleason & Cronquist
  • Resources
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Cinquefoil or five-fingers, names applied to the spp. with 5 lfls. Hypanthium saucer-shaped to hemispheric; sep (4)5, alternating with as many, usually somewhat narrower or shorter, foliaceous bractlets; pet (4)5, diverse in size and shape; stamens 5-many, commonly 20; pistils inserted on a prolongation of the receptacle, (10-) numerous; ovaries short; ovule 1; style slender, terminal or lateral or nearly basal, articulated with the ovary; fr a head of achenes, often partly enclosed by the persistent, accrescent cal; herbs or small shrubs, with compound, stipulate lvs and small or medium-sized, yellow or seldom white or red-purple fls. x=7; many spp. are polyploid, or apomictic, or both. 200, N. Hemisphere.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within checklist: Denver-Boulder Metropolitan Area
Potentilla ambigens
Media resource of Potentilla ambigens
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Potentilla anglica
Media resource of Potentilla anglica
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Potentilla argentea
Media resource of Potentilla argentea
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Potentilla bipinnatifida
Media resource of Potentilla bipinnatifida
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Potentilla concinna
Media resource of Potentilla concinna
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Potentilla diversifolia
Media resource of Potentilla diversifolia
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Potentilla effusa
Media resource of Potentilla effusa
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Potentilla gracilis
Media resource of Potentilla gracilis
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Potentilla hippiana
Media resource of Potentilla hippiana
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Potentilla hookeriana
Media resource of Potentilla hookeriana
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Potentilla humifusa
Media resource of Potentilla humifusa
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Potentilla indica
Media resource of Potentilla indica
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Potentilla nivea
Media resource of Potentilla nivea
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Potentilla norvegica
Media resource of Potentilla norvegica
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Potentilla ovina
Media resource of Potentilla ovina
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Potentilla pensylvanica
Media resource of Potentilla pensylvanica
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Potentilla plattensis
Media resource of Potentilla plattensis
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Potentilla pulcherrima
Media resource of Potentilla pulcherrima
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Potentilla recta
Media resource of Potentilla recta
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Potentilla rivalis
Media resource of Potentilla rivalis
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Potentilla rubricaulis
Media resource of Potentilla rubricaulis
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Potentilla rupincola
Media resource of Potentilla rupincola
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Potentilla subjuga
Media resource of Potentilla subjuga
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Potentilla supina
Media resource of Potentilla supina
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Potentilla uniflora
Media resource of Potentilla uniflora
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