Potentilla pseudosericea

Potentilla pseudosericea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Potentilla
Species: P. pseudosericea
Binomial name
Potentilla pseudosericea
Rydb.

Potentilla pseudosericea is a species of cinquefoil known by the common names silky cinquefoil[1] and Mono cinquefoil. It is native to the Sierra Nevada of California and mountain ranges just to the east, where its distribution extends into Nevada. It grows in rocky mountainous habitat. It is a small plant forming mats or tufts in rock cracks and talus, its short stem growing from a caudex. The leaves are generally palmate, divided into five leaflets. The leaflets are deeply lobed along the edges and woolly in texture, coated in white or silvery hairs. The inflorescence is a cluster of a few yellow flowers with petals around 3 millimeters long each.

References

  1. "Potentilla pseudosericea". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 13 October 2015.


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