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Big Flowered Cinquefoil

Drymocallis fissa

Also called Leafy Cinquefoil, Leafy Drymocallis, Big Flower Cinquefoil, Bigflower Cinquefoil

Big Flowered Cinquefoil
Photo: Patrick Alexander https://www.inaturalist.org/people/aspidoscelis, CC0
Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Native range
WC. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Drymocallis fissa, the bigflower cinquefoil, also known as the leafy cinquefoil, leafy drymocallis, or wood beauty, is a small plant also sometimes classified as Potentilla fissa. It is a herbaceous plant with a thick taproot known for its moderately hairy leaves, redish leaf stems, and relatively large yellow flowers. It is native to foothills and lower mountains the Rocky Mountain region in the western United States.

Where it grows

Drymocallis fissa can be found from northern New Mexico to Alberta, Canada, but is most commonly found in the Front Range mountains and lower foothills in Colorado and Medicine Bow Mountains of Wyoming. It has also been reliably observed in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The USDA records observations in San Miguel County, New Mexico; Carbon County, Montana; Stillwater County, Montana; and Custer County, Idaho as well as Oregon and Utah, but these are suspected of being misidentifications of other species.

Other Drymocallis plants

Tall Cinquefoil · Glandular Cinquefoil · Rock Cinquefoil · Cinquefoil

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Drymocallis fissa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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