Potentilla diversifolia

Potentilla diversifolia

''Potentilla diversifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the Rose Family known by the common names varileaf cinquefoil, different-leaved cinquefoil, and mountain meadow cinquefoil.
Mountain Meadow Cinquefoil  Geotagged,Potentilla diversifolia,Summer,United States

Appearance

''Potentilla diversifolia'' is plant has gray-green leaves divided into usually five leaflets, which are mostly hairless and are deeply lobed or have teeth along their distal margins. Most of the leaves are low on the stem, with smaller ones occurring above. The inflorescence is a cyme of several flowers. Each has a small corolla of yellow petals above a calyx of five pointed sepals and five narrower bractlets.
Mountain meadow cinquefoil  Geotagged,Potentilla diversifolia,Spring,United States

Distribution

It is native to North America, where it grows in moist habitat in many regions, in Alaska to Greenland, the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains, and from California to New Mexico.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderRosales
FamilyRosaceae
GenusPotentilla
SpeciesP. diversifolia