Alpine Cinquefoil
Scientific name: Potentilla crantzii (Crantz) Beck ex Fritsch
Diagnostic features
Perennial with terminal leaf-rosettes and ascending flowering stems to 20cm arising from side.
Basal leaves palmate, with (3-)5 leaflets.
Flowers 1-few in cymes, c.15-20mm across.
Petals yellow, longer than sepals.
Achenes glabrous.
Chromosome number: 2n=42, 63.
Habitat
Native; sparse basic grassland, rocky places and crevices on mountains.
Distribution
Very local in Scotland, North Wales and North England South to Derbys.
This species is keyed out on Page 2295 in the Text Key.
Hybrids
- ?Potentilla x beckii Murr (= Potentilla crantzii x Potentilla tabernaemontani) might be the identity of intermediate plants in Midwest Yorks, South Aberdeen and Cheviot, the last far from either species. Intermediacy is shown in stipule-shape, flower-size and growth-habit. Chromosome number: 2n=61-64. |
