Biology:Potentilla grayi
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
Potentilla grayi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Rosaceae |
Genus: | Potentilla |
Species: | P. grayi
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Binomial name | |
Potentilla grayi S.Watson
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Potentilla grayi is a species of cinquefoil known by the common name Gray's cinquefoil.[2]
Description
Potentilla grayi is a small upright plant growing 10 to 20 centimeters tall. The leaves are ternate, divided into three leaflets. Each leaflet is roughly oval in shape and has usually seven blunt teeth along the edges. The inflorescence is a cyme of one to five flowers each with five yellow petals.
Distribution
Potentilla grayi is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California , where it grows in high mountain meadows.
References
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.134245.
- ↑ "Potentilla grayi". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=POGR20. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7234854 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla grayi.
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