slender cinquefoil

(Potentilla gracilis)

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Distribution
 
 

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Sources

2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 28.

 
  12/30/2011      
         
 
Taxonomy
 
  Kingdom Plantae (green algae and land plants)  
  Subkingdom Viridiplantae (green plants)  
  Infrakingdom Streptophyta (land plants and green algae)  
  Superdivision Embryophyta (land plants)  
  Division Tracheophyta (vascular plants)  
  Subdivision Spermatophytina (seed plants)  
  Class Magnoliopsida (flowering plants)  
  Superorder Rosanae  
 

Order

Rosales (roses, elms, figs, and allies)  
 

Family

Rosaceae (rose)  
  Subfamily Rosoideae (brambles, roses, strawberries, and allies)  
  Tribe Potentilleae (strawberries, cinquefoils, and allies)  
  Subtribe Potentillinae  
 

Genus

Potentilla (cinquefoil)  
       
 

Subordinate Taxa

 
 

combleaf cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis var. elmeri)

fanleaf cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis var. flabelliformis)

graceful cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis var. gracilis)

northwest cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis var. fastigiata)

Owyhee cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis var. owyheensis)

slender cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis var. brunnescens)

 
       
 

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Common Names

 
 

graceful cinquefoil

northwest cinquefoil

slender cinquefoil

 
       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       
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  Potentilla gracilis
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  Potentilla gracilis  
 
About

Fruit: multiple achenes. Similar to P. recta but a native species with generally ascending stems that do not bear many stem leaves and with well-developed long-petiolate basal leaves. Perennial herb with erect to ascending stems 10-60 cm long, mountain meadows and grasslands, as well as mountain big sagebrush steppe.

 
     

 

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