Potentilla hippiana Lehm.
Horse Cinquefoil (Graceful Cinquefoil; woolly cinquefoil)
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Horse Cinquefoil (Graceful Cinquefoil; woolly cinquefoil)
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
SUBTAXA PRESENT IN BC
Potentilla hippiana var. hippiana
Species Information
General:
Perennial herb from a stout branched stem-base covered with brown remains of old leaf-bases; stems 1 to several, tufted, spreading to erect, 15-50 cm tall, usually branched above, white-woolly and silvery-silky.
Leaves:
Basal leaves stalked, pinnately compound; leaflets 5 to 11, oblong, 2-5 cm long, coarsely sharp-toothed not more than halfway to the midrib, white-woolly or silvery-silky on both surfaces or greenish above; stem leaves alternate, 2 to 5, reduced upwards.
Flowers:
Inflorescence an open, terminal cluster of several to many stalked flowers; corollas yellow, bowl-shaped, the petals 5, egg-shaped, 4-8 mm long, shallowly notched or rounded at the tip; calyces woolly- and coarse-hairy, 5-lobed, the lobes lance-egg-shaped, slightly shorter than the petals, alternating with 5 narrowly lanceolate bractlets about the same length as the calyx-lobes; ovaries superior; stamens usually 20
Fruits:
Achenes, numerous, clustered, lopsided-egg-shaped, 1.5 mm long, smooth.
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Potentilla hippiana
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) |
985 | 465 | 1665 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
9 | 0 | 75 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
186 | 41 | 360 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
3 | 0 | 6 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
111 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
IDF | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BG(8), IDF(95), PP(2), SBS(1) | ||
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Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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