Rosaceae
High mountain cinquefoil
Potentilla flabellifolia
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Potentilla
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- High mountain cinquefoil
Synonyms
- Potentilla flabellifolia f. alba Y.N.Lee
- Potentilla flabellifolia f. lasiocarpa (H.Hara) T.Shimizu
- Potentilla flabellifolia f. paucidentata H.Hara
- Potentilla flabellifolia var. apoiensis H.Hara
- Potentilla flabellifolia var. flabellifolia
- Potentilla flabellifolia var. glabrior Koidz.
- Potentilla flabellifolia var. lasiocarpa H.Hara
- Potentilla flabellifolia var. pilosior Koidz.
- Potentilla flabellifolia var. sublucida Th.Wolf
- Potentilla flabellifolia var. yuparensis Kudô ex H.Hara
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.