Family: Rosaceae
Potentilla
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 495 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Perennial herbs with a basal rosette of pinnate or digitate leaves, with or without stoloniferous branches; stipules joined to the petiole.
Flowers solitary, in the axil of the leaves; epicalyx of 4 or 5 sepals; inner sepals 4 or 5; petals 4 or 5; stamens many; carpels numerous, with 1 pendulous ovule, crowded on a dry or spongy strongly convex receptacle.
Fruit a head of achenes.
Distribution:
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About 500 species, nearly cosmopolitan.
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Biology:
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Key to Species:
Author:
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