Potentilla newberryi

Newberry's cinquefoil

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Newberry's cinquefoil is a rare (CNPS 2B.3) California native perennial found in the Modoc Plateau in receding shoreline habitats at elevations of 1,300 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces cream-colored flowers 3 to 5.5 millimeters long in many-flowered clusters with pedicels that curve downward in fruit. Growing with prostrate to decumbent stems 10 to 40 centimeters long, it spreads with ascending to spreading hairs. Its pinnate basal leaves have 4 to 8 leaflets on each side, with individual leaflets 3 to 10 millimeters long and irregularly toothed more than halfway to the midvein. The fruit is small, brown, and veined, measuring 1 to 1.5 millimeters long.

Habitat: Receding shorelines

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 1300-2200 m

Bioregions: MP

California counties: Modoc, Siskiyou

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