General:
Low to medium shrub, 0.3-1.5 m tall; stems spreading to erect, freely branched; young branches silky-hairy but soon becoming smooth; older branches with brown, shredding bark.
Leaves:
Alternate, deciduous, numerous, short-stalked, pinnately compound; leaflets 3 to 7, usually 5, crowded, oblong to linear, 0.5-2 cm long, greyish-green and silky to sparsely hairy above, silvery-silky beneath, the margins entire and often rolled under.
Flowers:
Inflorescence of 1 to few stalked flowers, single in the leaf axils or in small clusters at the branch tips; corollas yellow, saucer-shaped, (small and pale at low elevations to larger and brighter at higher elevations), the petals 5, nearly circular, 6-14 mm long; calyces soft-hairy, 5-lobed, the lobes lance-egg-shaped, 4-9 mm long, alternating with 5 narrower, slightly longer bractlets; ovaries superior, the styles club-shaped; stamens 25 to 30.
Fruits:
Achenes, numerous, clustered, egg-shaped, 1.5-2 mm long, coarsely white-hairy.
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Site Information |
Value / Class |
||
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
Elevation
(metres) |
1490 | 420 | 2618 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
25 | 0 | 150 |
Aspect (degrees) |
177 | 0 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
3 | 0 | 8 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
694 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ESSF | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
AT(19), BAFA(50), BWBS(97), ESSF(184), ICH(18), IDF(31), IMA(8), MH(2), MS(64), PP(1), SBS(3), SWB(131) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
|
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Dasiphora floribunda (Pursh) Raf.
Pentaphylloides floribunda (Pursh) A. L÷ve, nom. illeg.
Pentaphylloides fruticosa auct. non (L.) O. Schwarz
Potentilla floribunda Pursh
Potentilla fruticosa auct. non L.
Potentilla fruticosa subsp. floribunda (Pursh) Elkington
Potentilla fruticosa var. farreri Besant
Potentilla fruticosa var. tenuifolia Lehm.