Kingdom Plantae Family Rosaceae Rank Species | Order Rosales Genus Potentilla | |
Similar Potentilla inclinata, Potentilla supina, Potentilla nivea, Potentilla alchemilloides, Potentilla hippiana | ||
Potentilla bifurca (Chinese: 裂委陵菜; pinyin: er lie wei ling cai) is a species of flowering plant in the Rosaceae family which can be found in Russian, Korean, and Mongolian steppes, grasslands and various slopes on 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.
Description
The species is 5–20 centimetres (2.0–7.9 in) tall and have 3–8 pairs of leaflets which are elliptic, obovate, sessile, and are 0.5–1.5 centimetres (0.20–0.59 in) by 4–8 millimetres (0.16–0.31 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 (0.28–0.59 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.