Family:
Rosaceae Juss.
Genus:
Potentilla L.

Potentilla gracilis Douglas ex Hook.

This species is accepted, and its native range is Subarctic America to W. & Central U.S.A.

Native to:

Alaska, Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Idaho, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northwest Territorie, Ontario, Oregon, Prince Edward I., Québec, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon

English
Soft Cinquefoil

Potentilla gracilis Douglas ex Hook. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2012 Burke [s.n.], Oregon K000762597 isotype Yes
Hooker, J.D. [s.n.], Colorado K000762586 Yes
Nuttall, T. [s.n.], Oregon K000762588 Yes

First published in Bot. Mag. 57: t. 2984 (1830)

Accepted by

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2014). Flora of North America North of Mexico 9: 1-713. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Allred, K.W. (2012). Flora Neomexicana, ed. 2, 1: 1-599. Range Science Herbarium, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2014). Flora of North America North of Mexico 9: 1-713. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Living Collection Database

    Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    Copyright applied to individual images