| Family | ROSACEAE |
| Genus species | Potentilla nivea L. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 499 (1753) |
| Native Range | Subarctic and Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Biome | Subarctic or Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland and rocks |
| Description | stems white lanate, leaves ternate, long petiolate, leaflets ovate, dentate, adaxially green, abaxially densely white tomentose, flowers 12-18mm, in few flowered raceme |
| Size | 5-25cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained 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 | Fragaria nivea (L.) Crantz Potentilla concinna var. dissecta (S.Watson) B.Boivin Potentilla dryophylla Pall. ex Ledeb. Potentilla fissuralis Fed. & Al.Fed. ex Popov Potentilla flabellifolia ssp. matsumurae Th.Wolf Potentilla fragariifolia Less. ex Ledeb. Potentilla jamesoniana Grev. Potentilla jezoensis Soják Potentilla macrantha Ledeb. Potentilla matsuokana Makino Potentilla michoacana Rydb. Potentilla nivea var. alpina Turcz. Potentilla nivea f. alpina (Turcz.) Th.Wolf Potentilla nivea var. arctica Cham. & Schltdl. Potentilla nivea var. camtschatica Cham. & Schltdl. Potentilla nivea var. canotomentosa Rupr. Potentilla nivea ssp. chionodes Hiitonen Potentilla nivea var. concolor S.Watson Potentilla nivea var. dissecta S.Watson Potentilla nivea ssp. fallax A.E.Porsild Potentilla nivea var. floribunda Lehm. Potentilla nivea var. genuina Regel & Tiling Potentilla nivea var. hirsuta Durand Potentilla nivea var. incisa Turcz. Potentilla nivea f. incisa (Turcz.) Th.Wolf Potentilla nivea var. insularis Peschkova Potentilla nivea var. intermedia Regel & Tiling Potentilla nivea var. macrantha (Ledeb.) Ledeb. Potentilla nivea f. major (Turcz.) Th.Wolf Potentilla nivea var. major Turcz. Potentilla nivea f. multiflora Lehm. Potentilla nivea var. niveiformis Jurtzev Potentilla nivea var. pallidior Sw. Potentilla nivea var. pentaphylla Turcz. Potentilla nivea var. petiolulata Popov Potentilla nivea var. polyphylla Y.T.Chang & Z.T.Yin Potentilla nivea var. prostrata Retz. Potentilla nivea var. quinquefolia Rydb. Potentilla nivea var. tomentosa Nilsson-Ehle ex Hultén Potentilla nivea f. unifoliolosa (Hultén) B.Boivin Potentilla nivea var. vulgaris Cham. & Schltdl. Potentilla nivea var. yuparensis Miyabe & Tatew. Potentilla quiquefolia (Rydb.) Rydb. Potentilla saximontana var. dissecta (S.Watson) Soják Potentilla uniflora ssp. arctica (Cham. & Schltdl.) Hiitonen Potentilla villosa var. graciolior Ledeb. Potentilla villosa var. unifoliolosa Hultén |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, NOR Norway, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France) 13 Southeastern Europe (ITA Italy) 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (ARI Arizona, UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |