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Shrubby Cinquefoil - Potentilla fruticosa
Other Names:
Dasiphora floribunda, Dasiphora fruticosa, Pentaphylloides floribunda, Pentaphylloides fruticosa, Potentilla floribunda
General Description
Highly branched shrub 10–100 cm high. Stems reddish-brown, villous, becoming glabrous. Leaves petiolate; the blade sparsely hairy, glaucous beneath, with 5 narrowly lanceolate pinnate leaflets 7–20 mm long with entire, inrolled margins; stipules membranous, narrowly ovate. Inflorescence 1- to 5-flowered, terminal cymes or more commonly solitary in leaf axils. Flowers perfect, perigynous; hypanthium cup-shaped, villous; sepals 5,ovate, 4–7 mm long with narrow bracteoles as long as the sepals; petals yellow, 7–12 mm long; stamens 20 to 25; styles numerous. Fruit a long-hairy achene, 1–2 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Lesica (2012) treats this species in the genus
Dasiphora.
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Native
Range Comments
Circumboreal south to CA, NM, MN and NJ (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 2031
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Relative Density
Recency
(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)
Habitat
Moist grasslands, meadows, fens, open forest, exposed slopes, ridges; valleys to alpine (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus bifarius,
Bombus fervidus,
Bombus frigidus,
Bombus rufocinctus,
Bombus occidentalis,
Bombus pensylvanicus,
Bombus impatiens, and
Bombus flavidus (Thorp et al. 1983, Wilson et al. 2010, Colla and Dumesh 2010, Colla et al. 2011, Koch and Strange 2012, Koch et al. 2012, Williams et al. 2014).
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
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Colla, S., L. Richardson, and P. Williams. 2011. Bumble bees of the eastern United States. Washington, DC: USDA Forest Service, Pollinator Partnership. 103 p.- Colla, S.R. and S. Dumesh. 2010. The bumble bees of southern Ontario: notes on natural history and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 141:39-68.
- Koch, J., J. Strange, and P. Williams. 2012. Bumble bees of the western United States. Washington, DC: USDA Forest Service, Pollinator Partnership. 143 p.
- Koch, J.B. and J.P. Strange. 2012. The status of Bombus occidentalis and B. moderatus in Alaska with special focus on Nosema bombi incidence. Northwest Science 86:212-220.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
- Thorp, R.W., D.S. Horning, and L.L. Dunning. 1983. Bumble bees and cuckoo bumble bees of California (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 23:1-79.
- Williams, P., R. Thorp, L. Richardson, and S. Colla. 2014. Bumble Bees of North America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 208 p.
- Wilson, J.S., L.E. Wilson, L.D. Loftis, and T. Griswold. 2010. The montane bee fauna of north central Washington, USA, with floral associations. Western North American Naturalist 70(2): 198-207.
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