Potentilla flabellifolia

Fan-foil, fanleaf cinquefoil, Fanleaf Cinquefoil

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Fan-foil is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, high Cascade Range, and Sierra Nevada in moist meadows at elevations of 1,700 to 3,700 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces yellow flowers with petals 6 to 10 millimeters long. Growing with ascending to erect stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms loosely clustered groups from an openly branched base. Its ternate leaves have three leaflets, with the central leaflet 10 to 30 millimeters long, widely obovate and unevenly toothed along the margins. The small brown or reddish fruits are approximately 1.2 millimeters long.

Habitat: Moist meadows

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 1700-3700 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH, SNH

California counties: Fresno, Inyo, Alpine, Mono, Tulare, Madera, Siskiyou, El Dorado, Shasta, Placer, Nevada, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Plumas, Trinity, Tehama, Lassen, Sierra, Butte

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