| Family | ROSACEAE |
| Genus species | Potentilla elegans Cham. & Schltdl. |
| Bibliography | Linnaea 2: 22 (1827) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Russian Far East and Mongolia, Subarctic America to w. Canada |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | rocks |
| Altitude | 100-1600m |
| Description | leaves petiolate, ternate, leaflets in outline broadly obovate, pinnatipartite, 3-7mm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely hirsute, flower ssolitary, 5-9mm across |
| Size | 1-5cm |
| Color | 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 |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye) 37 Mongolia 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) |