Potentilla sect. Subjugae (Rydberg) A. Nelson in J. M. Coulter and A. Nelson (Q4044)

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Potentilla sect. Subjugae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Potentilla
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Potentilla sect. Subjugae (Rydberg) A. Nelson in J. M. Coulter and A. Nelson
Potentilla sect. Subjugae is a taxon with the rank section within the genus Potentilla

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    taxon/id/Potentilla sect. Subjugae (Rydberg) A. Nelson
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    Potentilla sect. Subjugae (Rydberg) A. Nelson
    Potentilla sect. Subjugae
    (Rydberg) A. Nelson
    accepted
    Potentilla sect. Subjugae
    w North America
    taproots not fleshy-thickened;
    vestiture of long, crisped, and/or cottony hairs, glands sparse to common, sometimes red.
    Stems ascending to nearly erect, not flagelliform, not rooting at nodes, lateral to persistent basal rosettes, (0.2–) 0.4–2.5 (–3.5) dm, lengths 2–3 times basal leaves.
    Leaves: basal not 2-ranked;
    primary leaves palmate with additional lateral pairs to pinnate (with distal leaflets distinct), (1–) 1.5–10 (–14) cm;
    petiole: long hairs spreading to tightly appressed, weak to stiff, glands absent or sparse;
    leaflets 5–7 (–9), on distal 1/10–1/3 (–1/2) of leaf axis, strongly overlapping or not, oblanceolate-oblong to obovate, margins scarcely to ± revolute, ± whole length evenly incised 1/2–3/4 to midvein, teeth 2–9 per side, surfaces ± to strongly dissimilar, abaxial white to grayish green, cottony hairs sparse to dense, adaxial green to grayish, not glaucous, long hairs ± stiff.
    Inflorescences (1–) 2–20 (–30) -flowered, usually cymose, open.
    Pedicels straight in fruit, 0.5–2 (–3) cm, proximal ± longer than distal.
    Flowers 5-merous;
    hypanthium 3–5 mm diam.;
    petals yellow, ± obcordate, 4–8 mm, equal to or longer than sepals, apex retuse;
    styles subapical, filiform to filiform-tapered or filiform-columnar, papillate-swollen in proximal less than 1/5 if at all, 0.8–2 mm.