General:
Perennial herb from stout branched stem-base; stems slender, 1 to several, tufted, erect or decumbent at the base, 20-50 cm tall, usually with short and long, spreading or ascending hairs.

Leaves:
Basal leaves stalked, pinnately compound but sometimes appearing palmate; leaflets 5 to 7 (9), crowded, oblong to lanceolate, 1-6 cm long, cleft nearly to the midrib into linear-oblong lobes, grey-green and sparsely to densely hairy on the upper surface, white-woolly overlain with long-silky hairs or occasionally nearly smooth and greenish beneath; stem leaves alternate, similar but short-stalked, 2 to 4, reduced upward.

Flowers:
Inflorescence an open to compact and narrow, terminal cluster of several to many stalked flowers; corollas yellow, bowl-shaped, the petals 5, heart-shaped, 2-3 mm long; calyces woolly- to appressed-hairy and more or less glandular, 5-lobed, the lobes egg-shaped, 3-4 mm long, alternating with 5 shorter, lance-oblong bractlets; ovaries superior, the styles glandular-warty-thickened at the base; stamens usually 20.

Fruits:
Achenes, numerous, clustered, lopsided-egg-shaped, about 1 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Potentilla bipinnatifida var. bipinnatifida
Potentilla finitima Kohli & Packer
Potentilla pensylvanica var. arida B. Boivin
Potentilla pensylvanica var. bipinnatifida (Douglas ex Hook.) Torr. & A. Gray