Potentilla leuconota D.Don

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Potentilla

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Flowering stems 10–45 cm tall, together with petioles appressed or slightly spreading villous. Radical leaves 2.5–25 cm including petiole; auricles of stipules connate from base to middle, apex acute; leaf blade interrupted (rarely non-interrupted) pinnate with 6–18 pairs of leaflets; terminal leaflet ovate to elliptic, or oblong, 0.5–3 × 0.3–1.5 cm, abaxially densely appressed silvery or yellowish sericeous, or sparsely strigose, base decurrent in apical 2 or 3 pairs of leaflets, margin 4-to many serrate, teeth acute or acuminate; cauline leaves 1 or 2, resembling radical ones; auricles of stipules herbaceous, margin lacerate or parted. Inflorescence compactly pseudoumbellate, with leaflike involucre. Flowers 5–8 mm in diam.; pedicel 1.5–2 cm, densely appressed white villous. Epicalyx segments lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, abaxially densely white villous. Petals yellow, obovate, apex rounded. Style lateral. Achenes not seen. Fl. and fr. May–Nov.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.45
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OctNovDec
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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

Potentilla leuconota world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:728397-1
WFO ID wfo-0000983425
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Synonyms

Potentilla leuconota Potentilla leuconota var. leuconota Potentilla leuconota var. morrisonicola