Potentilla drummondii

Drummond's cinquefoil

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Drummond's cinquefoil is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, and Sierra Nevada Mountains in montane meadows at elevations of 1,100 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces pale yellow to white flowers with petals 7 to 10 millimeters long in compact clusters of 3 to 15 blossoms. Growing with ascending to erect stems 15 to 60 centimeters tall, it forms a compact tuft from a few-branched underground stem. Its pinnate basal leaves have 2 to 4 leaflets on each side, with leaflets 10 to 50 millimeters long and unevenly toothed almost to the midvein. The small brown fruits are approximately 1.5 to 2 millimeters long and nearly smooth.

Habitat: Meadows

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1110-3000 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, SNH

California counties: Fresno, Alpine, Siskiyou, Del Norte, Humboldt, Tulare, Inyo, Lake, Colusa, Mono, Modoc, Mendocino, Nevada, Madera, Mariposa, Placer, Trinity, Tuolumne, Amador, Butte, Shasta, Tehama, El Dorado

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