Potentilla flabellifolia Hook. ex Torr. & A. Gray
fan-leaved cinquefoil (high mountain cinquefoil)
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
fan-leaved cinquefoil (high mountain cinquefoil)
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Perennial herb from a creeping rhizome and branched stem-base; stems several, tufted, ascending to erect, 10-30 cm tall, nearly smooth to short-hairy.
Leaves:
Basal leaves numerous, long-stalked, palmately compound; leaflets 3, wedge- to fan-shaped, 1-3 cm long, unevenly and deeply blunt-toothed except at the base, green on both surfaces, smooth to slightly hairy; stem leaves alternate, 1 or 2.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a leafy-bracted terminal cluster of few (1 to 5) stalked flowers; corollas yellow, bowl-shaped, the petals 5, heart-shaped, 6-10 mm long, notched at the tip; calyces often glandular, 5-lobed, the lobes lance-triangular, alternating with 5 slightly shorter, oval bractlets entire or 2- or 3-toothed at the tip; ovaries superior, the styles not warty at the base; stamens about 20.
Fruits:
Achenes, numerous, clustered, lopsided-egg-shaped, about 1.5 mm long, dark, smooth.
Illustration
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
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Potentilla flabellifolia
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
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|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
1861 | 945 | 2390 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
18 | 0 | 84 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
160 | 3 | 360 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 1 | 7 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
56 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ESSF | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
AT(2), CMA(3), ESSF(37), IMA(6), MH(1) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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Habitat and Range
Moist meadows, heath and scree slopes in the montane to alpine zones; locally frequent in the Coast-Cascade Mountains south of 51degreeN, rare in extreme SC BC; E to SW AB and S to MT, ID and CA.Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Potentilla emarginata Pursh
Potentilla flabellifolia var. emarginata (Pursh) B. Boivin
Potentilla hyparctica Malte
Potentilla hyparctica subsp. nana (Willd. ex Schltdl.) Hultén
Potentilla hyparctica var. elatior (Abrom.) Fernald