Ashy Cinquefoil

Herbs perennial. Roots robust, terete. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 12–40 cm tall, together with petioles villous, pubescent, and sparsely tomentose. Radical leaves usually withered after anthesis; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially villous; leaf blade palmately 5(–7)-foliolate; leaflets adaxially green, obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, abaxially canescent tomentose, glabrescent, adaxially appressed pilose, base cuneate, margin coarsely regularly serrate, apex obtuse; cauline leaves resembling radical ones but smaller and petiole shorter to absent; stipules green, ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous, abaxially tomentose and villous, margin entire or 1- or 2-serrate. Inflorescence corymbose-cymose or paniculate-cymose, laxly many flowered. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–1.5 cm, sparsely tomentose and villous. Sepals triangular-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, apex acute to acuminate; epicalyx segments linear-lanceolate, shorter than or rarely nearly equaling sepals, abaxially villous and pubescent, apex acute. Petals yellow, ovate, slightly longer than sepals, apex emarginate or subrounded. Style subterminal, base thickened; stigma slightly thickened. Achenes rugose. Fl. and fr. Jun–Sep.

Xinjiang [C Asia, C and S Europe].

Wet places on mountain slopes, flood lands; 1000--1300 m.

Potentilla canescens Besser.

Potentilla inclinata Vill. Hist. PL Dauph. 3 : 567. 1789
Potentilla canescens Besser, Prim. Fl. Gal. 1 : 330. 1809.
Hypargyrium suberectum Fourr. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon II. 16 : 371. 1868.
Potenhlla pilosa Macoun, Cat. Can. PI. 1 : 139. 1883. Not P. pilosa Vill. 1889.
Perennial ; stem rather simple, erect, or seldom decumbent at the base, leafy, more or less grayish-tomentulose and sparingly hirsute, furnished above with rather erect branches, 4-6 dm. high ; stipules lanceolate, entire ; leaves, except the uppermost, quinate, silkyhirsute on both sides and grayish-tomentulose beneath ; leaflets oblanceolate, deeply toothed with oblong, rather acute teeth, 2-A cm. long ; hypanthium hirsute and tomentulose, in fruit 7-10 mm. broad ; bractlets lanceolate, acute, equaling the ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate sepals, about 4 mm. long; petals broadly cuneate-obovate, slightly emarginate, equaling or slightly exceeding the calyx ; stamens about 20 ; pistils numerous ; styles filiform, short.
Type locality : Vicinity of Sigaye, Dauphine, France. t
Distribution :Europe and western Asia; introduced and established at Kingston, Ontario,

Potentilla inclinata is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Rosaceae.

Its native range is Europe to Russian Far East and Iran.