Mountain Meadow Cinquefoil

Potentilla diversifolia Lehm. Stirp. Pug. 2 : 9. 1830
Poteniilla dissecla Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 7: 21. 1834. Not P. dissecta Pursh. 1814. Potentilla campestris Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 439, as synonym. 1840.
Perennial, with a cespitose caudex ; stem erect, few-leaved, smooth or strigose, 1-2 dm. (rarely 3 dm. ) high ; stipules lanceolate to ovate, acuminate ; basal leaves digitate (P. campestris Nutt. ) , or often pinnate with approximate leaflets, or both in the same plant, more or less silky-strigose, especially beneath; petioles 5-15 cm. long; stem-leaves reduced, the
uppermost 3-ioliolate and sessile ; leaflets most commonly 7, oblanceolate-cuneate or sometimes obovate, more or less toothed with triangular-lanceolate teeth ; hy pan thium more or
less pubescent, in fruit 7-10 mm. in diameter ; bractlets and sepals lanceolate, acute, the latter 3.5-5 mm. long, the former shorter ; petals obcordate or obovate and emarginate, 6-7 mm. long, about one third longer than the sepals ; stamens about 20 ; pistils many ; styles filiform.
Type locality : [Not given in the original, but supplied in Hooker's Flora.] Summits of Rocky Mountains [British America] .
Distribution : Mountain valleys from Saskatchewan to British Columbia, California, and Colorado.

Potentilla glaucophylla Iyehm. Delect. Sem. Hort
Bot. Hamb. 1836 : 7. 1836.
Potentilla diversifolia glaucophylla Iyehm. Stirp. Pug. 9: 44. 1851. Potentilla dissecta glaucophylla S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 556. 1873.
Perennial, with a short woody caudex ; stems 1.5-4 dm. high, glabrous below, sparingly strigose above; basal leaves digitately 5-7-foliolate ; petioles glabrous, 2-10 cm. long; leaflets oblanceolate-cuneate, 1-5 cm. long, coarsely serrate, with oblong or lanceolate, ^cute teeth directed forward, strigose when young, soon glabrate, rather thick and more or less. glaucous ; lower stem-leaves similar but with shorter petioles, the upper reduced, 1-3-foliolate ; stipules ovate or lanceolate, 5-15 mm. long, acute, usually entire ; cyme 3-12-flowered ; hypanthium rather shallow, strigose, 5-7 mm. wide in fruit ; bractlets lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long, acute; sepals ovate, acuminate, 5-7 mm. long; petals obcordate, 6-10 mm. long; stamens 20 ; pistils many ; styles filiform.
Type locality : Plains of the first chain of the Rocky Mountains called the Black Hills. [Wyoming ? ] .
Distribution : Mountain valleys from British Columbia to Saskatchewan, New Mexico and Utah.

Potentilla diversifolia or Potentilla × diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the Rose Family (Rosaceae) known by the common names varileaf cinquefoil, different-leaved cinquefoil, and mountain meadow cinquefoil.