Potentilla breweri

Brewer's cinquefoil

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Brewer's cinquefoil is a California native perennial found in the central Klamath Ranges, Sierra Nevada, and Warner Mountains in meadows and rocky areas at elevations of 1,500 to 3,700 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces white flowers with petals 5 to 9 millimeters long in clusters of 3 to 15 blooms. Growing with decumbent to ascending stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall, it forms a tufted habit with cottony-hairy stems. Its pinnate basal leaves have 3 to 7 leaflets on each side, with obovate leaflets 5 to 20 millimeters long that are palmately toothed and white-hairy. The small brown fruits are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long, smooth to slightly veined.

Habitat: Meadows, rocks

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 1500-2300 m (KR) or 2700--3700 m

Bioregions: c KR, SNH, Wrn

California counties: Shasta, Siskiyou, Mono, San Bernardino, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Tuolumne, Modoc, Butte, Lassen, Mariposa, Placer, Plumas, Alpine, El Dorado, Madera, Nevada, Sierra, Trinity, Del Norte

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.