Potentilla verna Linnaeus (Q4003)

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Potentilla verna is a taxon with the rank species within the section Potentilla sect. Aureae
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Potentilla verna Linnaeus
Potentilla verna is a taxon with the rank species within the section Potentilla sect. Aureae

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    taxon/id/Potentilla verna Linnaeus
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    Potentilla verna Linnaeus
    Potentilla verna
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    potentille printanière (French)
    potentille de printemps (French)
    spring cinquefoil (English)
    Spring cinquefoil (English)
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    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
    Europe
    Flowering spring–early summer.
    0–200 m
    Plants openly matted;
    caudex branches elongate, slender, sometimes rooting at nodes.
    Stems prostrate to decumbent, rarely weakly erect, 0.3–1.5 dm, lengths 1–2 (–3) times basal leaves.
    Basal leaves not in ranks, palmate, 2–5 (–10) cm;
    stipules: apex acuminate to acute, rarely obtuse;
    petiole 1–6 cm, long hairs common, ascending to appressed, 1–2.5 mm, weak to ± stiff, glands absent or sparse;
    leaflets 5–7, central oblanceolate to obovate, (0.8–) 1–3 × 0.4–1.5 cm, petiolule 0–2 mm, margins flat, not lobed, distal 1/4–1/2 (–2/3) evenly incised ± 1/3 to midvein, teeth 2–4 (–5) per side, surfaces similar, green, hairs absent especially adaxially or sparse, 0.5–1.5 (–2) mm, glands absent or sparse.
    Inflorescences 3–5 (–6) -flowered.
    Pedicels often recurved, 1–3 (–4) cm, not much longer in fruit than in flower.
    Flowers: epicalyx bractlets lanceolate, 3.5–5 × 1–1.5 mm, margins flat;
    hypanthium 2–4 mm diam.;
    sepals 3–5 mm, apex broadly acute to obtuse;
    petals yellow, 5–8 (–10) × 4–6 mm;
    filaments 0.8–2 mm, anthers 0.5–0.8 mm;
    carpels 40–60, styles ± columnar, not papillate-swollen proximally, 1 mm.
    Achenes 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70, 84 (Europe).