Potentilla centigrana Maxim.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Potentilla

Characteristics

Herbs annual or biennial. Rootlets numerous, fibrous. Flowering stems prostrate, ascending, or suberect, 20–50 cm tall, together with petioles glabrous or pilose, sometimes with adventitious roots at nodes in lower part. Radical leaves usually withered at anthesis; stipules brown, membranous, glabrous or pilose; leaf blade 3-foliolate; cauline leaves: stipules pale green, ovate, margin usually serrate, rarely entire; petiole long; leaf blade 3-foliolate; leaflets shortly petiolulate or subsessile, both surfaces green, elliptic or obovate, 0.5–1.5 × 0.4–1.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous or pilose, base cuneate to rounded, margin obtusely or acutely incised serrate, apex rounded. Flowers solitary, opposite leaves in lower part of flowering stem, axillary in upper part, 4–8 mm in diam.; pedicel slender, 0.5–2 cm, glabrous or subglabrous. Sepals broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate; epicalyx segments lanceolate, shorter than or nearly equaling sepals, apex acuminate. Petals tinged yellow, obovate, shorter than sepals, apex emarginate or rounded. Style subterminal, base thickened; stigma not dilated. Achenes obovoid, ca. 1 mm in diam., smooth. Fl. and fr. Apr–Aug.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.5
Root system adventitious-root fibrous-root
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Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
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Images

Potentilla centigrana unspecified picture

Distribution

Potentilla centigrana world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:727847-1
WFO ID wfo-0000984696
COL ID 4M55L
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Potentilla bodinieri Potentilla centigrana var. japonica Potentilla centigrana var. mandshurica Potentilla centigrana