High Mountain Cinquefoil

''Potentilla flabellifolia'' is a species of cinquefoil known by the common names high mountain cinquefoil and fan-foil. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Wyoming, where it grows in higher elevation mountainous habitat, such as summertime meadows. It produces one or more erect stems from a branching caudex and system of rhizomes. It grows 10 to 30 centimeters tall, and is slightly hairy to nearly hairless. The leaves are ternate, divided into three leaflets... more