Crantz's cinquefoil

Family Rosaceae. Native range: Europe, Siberia, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, North America. In high-mountain and arctic tundra, along stream banks, on rocky slopes, in alpine and subalpine meadows.

Stems 7-25 cm high, ascending, arcuately curved, less often almost straight, pubescent with curved hairs, often with a small admixture of glands, sometimes slightly villous in the very upper part. Basal and lower stem leaves palmate, five-parted, rarely with some three-parted ones, green on both sides, more or less pubescent, often scatteredly glandular on the lower surface. Leaflets 0.8-3 (4) cm long, 0.5-1.5 (2) cm wide, with rather large teeth in the upper half. Flowers 10-20 mm in diameter, in a few-flowered lax inflorescence. Calyx sparsely hairy, more or less glandular, 1.5-2 times shorter than the corolla. Outer oblong sepals shorter than the oblong-ovate acuminate inner ones. Achenes slightly wrinkled or smooth. In the photograph Potentilla crantzii 'Goldrausch'.