Silverweed cinquefoil - Argentina anserina
Other Names:
Potentilla anserina
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S4S5
C-value:
4
Agency Status
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Stoloniferous, stemless with a growth form similar to strawberry. Leaves basal, arising singly or in tufts from stolon nodes. Leaf blades oblong, 5–20 cm long, divided into 15 to 25 oblanceolate, dentate leaflets, glabrous to sparsely hairy above, white-tomentose beneath. Inflorescence of solitary flowers on long, sericeous peduncles. Flowers: sepals spreading, 2–5 mm long; bracteoles as long or longer; petals yellow, 5–9 mm long. Achenes lightly wrinkled, ca. 2 mm long; styles attached laterally (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Our plants are subspecies
anserina.
Wet or vernally wet meadows, margins of streams, ponds, wetlands; plains, valleys, montane (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).)