Sibbaldianthe bifurca | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Rosaceae |
Genus: | Sibbaldianthe |
Species: | S. bifurca |
Binomial name | |
Sibbaldianthe bifurca (L.) Kurtto & T.Erikss. | |
Synonyms | |
Potentilla bifurcaL. |
Sibbaldianthe bifurca is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae which can be found in the steppes, grasslands and various slopes of Russia, Korea, and Mongolia at an elevation of 400–4,000 metres (1,300–13,100 ft). It is also found on sandy coasts of North and Northeast China. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 in his book Species Plantarum as Potentilla bifurca. [1]
The species is 5–20 centimetres (2–8 in) tall and have 3–8 pairs of leaflets which are elliptic, obovate, sessile, and are 0.5–1.5 centimetres (0.2–0.6 in) by 4–8 millimetres (0.2–0.3 in). The leaves are 3–8 centimetres (1.2–3.1 in) long with membranous and brown coloured stipules. Flowers are as tall as 0.7–1.5 centimetres (0.3–0.6 in) while the sepals are ovate and the apex is acute. It petals are yellow in colour and are obovate with rounded apex. the ovary is pilose white the achenes are smooth. Both flowers and fruits bloom from May to October. [1]
Dasiphora fruticosa is a species of hardy deciduous flowering shrub in the family Rosaceae, native to the cool temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere, often growing at high altitudes in mountains. Dasiphora fruticosa is still widely referenced in the horticultural literature under its synonym Potentilla fruticosa. Common names include shrubby cinquefoil, golden hardhack, bush cinquefoil, shrubby five-finger, widdy, kuril tea and tundra rose.
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Carl Linnaeus (1753). Species Plantarum. Vol. 1. p. 497.