| Family | ROSACEAE |
| Genus species | Potentilla arenosa (Turcz.) Juz. |
| Bibliography | Fl. URSS [V.L.Komarov, ed.] 10: 137 (1941) |
| Native Range | e. Europe to Russian Far East and Mongolia, Subarctic America to w. & c. Canada |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| Habitat | sands and rocks |
| Description | basal leaves minute, shortly petiolate, leaflets 1-2cm, ovate, at base narrowly cuneate, densely appresed hirsute, inflorescence 3-7-flowered, flowers thinly pedicellate |
| Size | 10-20cm |
| 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 | Potentilla arenosa var. nipharga (Rydb.) Jurtzev Potentilla arenosa var. pinnatisecta Jurtzev Potentilla basanensis Serg. Potentilla nipharga Rydb. Potentilla nivea ssp. arenosa (Turcz.) Kuvaev Potentilla nivea var. arenosa Turcz. Potentilla nivea var. nipharga (Rydb.) Soják |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUC Central European Russia, RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan, SAK Sakhalin) 37 Mongolia 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, SAS Saskatchewan) |