| Family | ROSACEAE |
| Genus species | Potentilla villosa Pall. ex Pursh |
| Bibliography | Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 353 (1814) |
| Native Range | Kamtschatka, Alaska to nw. USA |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Altitude | 0-1800m |
| Description | grey villose, leaves ternate, leaflets thick, cuneate-obovate, 1-2cm long, apically crenate, cyme 3-5-flowered, petals 5-8mm long |
| Size | 5-15cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
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| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer and fall |
| Synonyms | Potentilla fragiformis var. villosa (Pall. ex Pursh) Regel & Tiling Potentilla grandiflora var. villosa (Pall. ex Pursh) Kurtz Potentilla nivea var. villosa (Pall. ex Pursh) Regel & Tiling Potentilla nivea ssp. villosa (Pall. ex Pursh) Hiitonen Potentilla villosa f. carstiensis Siegfr. ex Th.Wolf Potentilla villosa f. macropetala F.Saut. Potentilla villosa var. macropetala (F.Saut.) Th.Wolf Potentilla villosa var. parviflora C.L.Hitchc. Potentilla villosa var. verna Schinz & R.Keller |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (ORE Oregon, WAS Washington) |
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