Family | ROSACEAE |
Genus species | Potentilla tetrandra (Bunge) Hook.f. |
Bibliography | Fl. Brit. India 2: 346 (1878) |
Native Range | Siberia to Central Asia and Himalaya |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 2000-6000m |
Description | sericeous-hirsute, leaves dense, ternate, petiolate, leaflets obovate-cuneate, 4-6mm long, flowers sessile amongst leaves, ca. 5mm across |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | straw yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer and fall |
Synonyms | Chionice dioica Bunge ex Ledeb. Dryadanthe altaica Bunge ex Lipsky Dryadanthe bungeana Ledeb. Dryadanthe pusilla Walp. Dryadanthe tetrandra (Bunge) Juz. Sibbaldia procumbens var. tibetica Hook.f. & Thomson Sibbaldia tetrandra Bunge |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, TVA Tuva) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 36 China (CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, WHM West Himalaya) |