An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . Potentilla pumila Poir. Dwarf Five-finger. Fig. 2229. P. pumila Poir. in Lam. Enc. Meth. 5: 594. canadensis pumila T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: Low, seldom more than a few inches high; flow-ering stems at first very short and upright; laterproducing slender prostrate runners; whole plantdensely silky-strigose, with appressed pubescence ;basal leaves
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . Potentilla pumila Poir. Dwarf Five-finger. Fig. 2229. P. pumila Poir. in Lam. Enc. Meth. 5: 594. canadensis pumila T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: Low, seldom more than a few inches high; flow-ering stems at first very short and upright; laterproducing slender prostrate runners; whole plantdensely silky-strigose, with appressed pubescence ;basal leaves digitately S-foliolate, on slender peti-oles; stem-leaves few and often only 3-foliolate;eaflets obovate, sharply serrate, usually less thani long; stipules small, lanceolate; flowers few,yellow, 3-s broad, the first from the axil of thefirst stem-leaf; petals broadly obovate, slightlyexceeding the narrowly lanceolate sepals andbractlets; stamens about poor soil, Maine to Ontario, Georgia and Ohio. Common Cinque foil 4. Potentilla canadensis L. Five-finger. Potentilla canadensis L. Sp. PI. 498. 1753. Spreading by slender runners 3-2° long, the pubescenceof the stem, petioles and peduncles spreading. Stipuleslanceolate, acute, entire or few-toothed; leaves petioled,digitately 5-foliolate (rarely 3-4-foliolate) ; leaflets ob-lanceolate, obovate or oblong, obtuse at the apex, narrowedat the base, 6-i long, serrate; peduncles slender, axillary,i-flowered, the first from the axil of the second stem-leaf; flower yellow, 3-7 broad; petals 5, broadly oval,slightly longer than the acute calyx-lobes and linear-lanceolate bractlets; stamens about 20; style filiform;achenes glabrous; receptacle villous. In dry soil. New Brunswick to Georgia. Minnesota and to 6300 ft. in North Carolina, .^pril-.^ug. Wild orbarren strawberry. Sinkfield. Running buttercups. Star-flower. Potentilla caroliniana a plant of the Southern States, with longer spreading pubesc
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