Potentilla biennis

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Potentilla biennis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Rosales
Family:  | Rosaceae
Genus:  | Potentilla
Species:  |

P. biennis

Binomial name
Potentilla biennis

Greene

Potentilla biennis is a species of cinquefoil known by the common names biennial cinquefoil[1] and Greene's cinquefoil. It is native to western North America from northwestern Canada to the southwestern United States, where it grows in moist habitat. This is an annual or biennial herb producing an erect stem up to 70 centimeters tall from a taproot. It is hairy and glandular in texture. The hairy leaves are each divided into three toothed, oval leaflets each up to 3 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a cyme of several flowers. Each flower has five oval yellow petals 1 or 2 millimeters long and five triangular sepals which are slightly longer. The fruit is a minute whitish achene.

## References

1. ↑ "Potentilla biennis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=POBI7. Retrieved 13 October 2015.

## External links

* Jepson Manual Treatment
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Wikidata ☰ Q7234846 entry

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