Potentilla gracilis

Slender cinquefoil, Slender Cinquefoil

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Slender cinquefoil is a California native perennial found in diverse habitats across California's mountain and foothill regions. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces yellow flowers in small clusters with delicate, five-petaled blooms. Growing with ascending stems 15 to 45 centimeters tall and forming tufts from short, thick rhizomes, it has a graceful, clumping growth habit. Its distinctive palmate leaves feature 5 to 9 oblanceolate leaflets, each with approximately 13 to 23 even teeth along the margins. The plant's small fruits are light brown and nearly smooth, measuring 1 to 1.5 millimeters in length.

California counties: Humboldt, Nevada, San Diego, San Bernardino, El Dorado, Tulare, Shasta, Mono, Ventura, Fresno, Del Norte, Tuolumne, Los Angeles, Riverside, Lassen, Siskiyou, Inyo, Modoc, Lake, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tehama, Alpine, Plumas, Placer, Mendocino, Butte, Sierra, Trinity, Amador, Glenn

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