Long-leaved cinquefoil

Family Rosaceae. Native range: Siberia, Central Asia, Mongolia. In steppes, on dry meadows, on open, rocky slopes, forest edges, in sparse woods.

Stems 15-60 (75) cm tall, erect. Basal and lower stem leaves with 3-5(6) pairs of leaflets, green on both sides, glandular, pubescent with simple hairs; on young leaves sometimes with an incomplete woolly layer beneath. Leaflets 1.5-5 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, deeply incised and coarsely toothed. Flowers few. Calyx densely glandular, hairy, equal to or longer than the corolla. Outer linear sepals almost equal to or longer than the ovate-lanceolate inner ones. Achenes smooth or slightly wrinkled, styles at the base with fairly well-developed papillae.