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Woolly Cinquefoil
Potentilla hippiana
Potentilla hippiana is a species of flowering plant, known by the common names woolly cinquefoil, horse cinquefoil, and Hipp's cinquefoil, in the rose family, Rosaceae.It is native to North America, where it occurs in western Canada and the western United States. It occurs in eastern Canada and the US state of Michigan as an introduced species.
This perennial herb grows up to one-half meter (1 ft 8 in) tall from a thick caudex and taproot. The leaves are up to 19 centimeters (7.5 in) long or more and each is made up of several toothed leaflets. The leaves may be hairless to hairy to woolly. The fruit is a tiny achene. This species hybridizes with several other cinquefoil species, such as beautiful cinquefoil (P. pulcherrima) and elegant cinquefoil (P. concinna).
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 167354.