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Potentilla norvegica

(Rough Cinquefoil Wildflower)

Common Names

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Common Names in Dutch:

Noorse Ganzerik

Common Names in English:

Norwegian Cinquefoil, Rough Cinquefoil, Rough Cinquefoil Wildflower

Description

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Family Rosaceae

Trees , shrubs , or herbs, deciduous or evergreen . Stems erect , scandent , arching , prostrate , or creeping , armed or unarmed . Buds usually with several exposed scales , sometimes with only 2. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or compound ; stipules paired , free or adnate to petiole , rarely absent, persistent or deciduous; petiole usually 2-glandular apically; leaf blade often serrate at margin , rarely entire. Inflorescences various, from single flowers to umbellate , corymbose , racemose or cymose-paniculate. Flowers usually actinomorphic , bisexual , rarely unisexual and then plants dioecious. Hypanthium (formed from basal parts of sepals, petals, and stamens) free from or adnate to ovary, short or elongate . Sepals usually 5, rarely fewer or more, imbricate; epicalyx segments sometimes also present. Petals as many as sepals, inserted below margin of disk, free, imbricate, sometimes absent. Disk lining hypanthium, usually entire, rarely lobed . Stamens usually numerous , rarely few, always in a complete ring at margin of or above disk; filaments usually free, very rarely connate ; anthers small, didymous , rarely elongate, 2-locular. Carpels 1 to many, free, or ± connate and then adnate to inner surface of cupular receptacle; ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or superior; ovules usually 2 in each carpel, rarely 1 or several, anatropous , superposed . Styles as many as carpels, terminal , lateral , or basal, free or sometimes connate. Fruit a follicle, pome, achene, or drupe, rarely a capsule, naked or enclosed in persistent hypanthium and sometimes also by sepals. Seeds erect or pendulous, sometimes winged , usually exalbuminous , very rarely with thin endosperm; cotyledons mostly fleshy and convex abaxially, rarely folded or convolute.

Between 95 and 125 genera and 2825-3500 species: cosmopolitan , mostly in N temperate zone; 55 genera (two endemic) and 950 species (546 endemic) in China.

Many plants of this family are of economic importance and contribute to people s livelihoods. The Rosaceae contain a great number of fruit trees of temperate regions . The fruits contain vitamins, acids, and sugars and can be used both raw and for making preserves, jam, jelly, candy, various drinks, wine, vinegar, etc. The dried fruits of the genera

Amygdalus and Armeniaca are of high commercial value. Some plants in the genus Rosa containing essential oils or with a high vitamin content are used in industry . Rosaceae wood is used for making various articles, stems and roots are used for making tannin extract, and young leaves are used as a substitute for tea. Numerous species are used for medical purposes or are cultivated as ornamentals .

The Rosaceae are very well represented in China, with great economic and scientific importance. The Co-chairs of the Editorial Committee (Wu and Raven) here note that the patterns of relationship are complex and the group is taxonomically difficult. [1]

Genus Potentilla

Herbs perennial , rarely biennial, annual , or shrubs , if perennial then with ± tufted , scaly rootstock . Stems erect , ascending , or prostrate . Leaves pinnate or palmately compound ; stipules ± adnate to petiole . Inflorescence often cymose or cymose-paniculate, or 1-flowered. Flowers usually bisexual . Hypanthium concave , mostly hemispheric . Sepals 5, valvate ; epicalyx segments 5, alternating with sepals. Petals 5, often yellow, rarely white or purple. Stamens usually ca. 20 in 3 series of 10, 5, and 5, rarely fewer or more (11-30) ; anthers 2-loculed. Carpels usually numerous , free , inserted on slightly elevated receptacle; ovule ascending or pendulous, anatropous , amphitropous , or suborthotropous; style subterminal , lateral , or basal. Achenes numerous, inserted on dry receptacle with persistent sepals. Seed testa membranous. x = 7.

About 500 species: mostly in temperate , arctic , and alpine zones of the N hemisphere, a few in the S hemisphere; 86 species (22 endemic) in China.[2]

Physical Description

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Yellow flowers, 1/2" to 3/4" across. Blooms June, July, August, September, October. • Flower Color: gold, yellow-orange

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 1-3' tall.

Habitat

Clearings, roadsides, thickets.

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,091 meters (0 to 13,422 feet).[3]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual , Biennial, Perennial

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Potentilla Monspeliensis Norvegica
  2. Potentilla nivea var. villosa (Pall. Ex Pursh) Regel & Tiling
  3. Potentilla Norvegica
  4. Potentilla villosa var. parviflora C. L. Hitchc.
  5. Potentilla Villosula Auct.
  6. Tridophyllum norvegicum (L.) Greene

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Place of publication : Sp. pl. 1:499. 1753

Name verified on 11-May-2006 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 11-May-2006

Similar Species

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This type of cinquefoil is branched and has three leaflets instead of the five.

Members of the genus Potentilla

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3944 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

P. 869b · P. abbreviata · P. abnormis · P. absinthifolia · P. absinthiifolia · P. abyssinica · P. acaulis · P. acaulis acaulis · P. acaulis arenaria · P. acaulis cinerea · P. acaulis pusilla · P. acaulis subsp. arenaria · P. acaulis subsp. cinerea · P. acaulis subsp. tommasiniana · P. acaulis subsp. velutina · P. acaulis tommasiniana · P. acaulis velutina · P. acuminata (Tapertip Cinquefoil) · P. acutifida · P. acutifolia · P. adamsiana · P. adenotricha · P. adinophylla · P. adnata · P. adpressa · P. adscendens · P. adscendens f. fallax · P. adscharica · P. adscharica f. amblyodonta · P. adscharica f. parviflora · P. adscharica f. polyodonta · P. adscharica f. schistosepala · P. adscharica f. typica · P. adscharica f. vulgata · P. adscharica forma amblyodonta · P. adscharica forma hirsutissima · P. adscharica forma parviflora · P. adscharica forma polyodonta · P. adscharica forma schistosepala · P. adscharica forma typica · P. adscharica forma vulgata · P. adscharica var. gymnosepala · P. adscharica var. trichosepala · P. adulterina · P. aemulans var. incisa · P. aetnea · P. aff. cuneata · P. aff. lineata · P. aff. polyphylla · P. affinis · P. africarum · P. agapantha · P. agrimonioides · P. agrimonioides agrimonioides · P. agrimonioides hispanica · P. agrimonioides oreodoxa · P. agrimonioides subsp. hispanica · P. agrimonioides subsp. oreodoxa · P. agrimonioides var. agrimonioides · P. agrimonioides var. arguta · P. agrimonioides var. capitata · P. agrimonioides var. intercedens · P. agrimonioides var. kobdoensis · P. agrimonioides var. malacotricha · P. agrimonioides var. micans · P. agrimonioides var. strigosella · P. agrimonoides · P. agrimonoides var. arguta · P. agrivaga · P. agrivagua · P. agyrophylla · P. aladaghensis · P. alaskana · P. alba (White Cinquefoil) · P. albanica · P. alba f. obovata · P. alba f. platyphylla · P. alba f. stenophylla · P. alba forma obovata · P. alba forma platyphylla · P. alba forma stenophylla · P. alba 'Snow White' (White Cinquefoil) · P. alba subvar. reducta · P. alba var. caulescens · P. alba var. obovata · P. alba var. splendens · P. alberti · P. albertii · P. albescens · P. albida · P. albiflora (White-Flower Cinquefoil) · P. albifolia · P. albigens · P. albipellis · P. albo-villosa · P. albovillosa · P. alchemilloides · P. alchimilloides · P. aleutica · P. alexeenkoi

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 29, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Cuizhi Gu, Chaoluan Li, Lingdi Lu, Shunyuan Jiang, Crinan Alexander, Bruce Bartholomew, Anthony R. Brach, David E. Boufford, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba, Kenneth R. Robertson & Steven A. Spongberg "Rosaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 46. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Li Chaoluan (Li Chao-luang, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba "Potentilla". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 291. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  3. Mean = 325.440 meters (1,067.717 feet), Standard Deviation = 386.160 based on 3,837 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/1/2009