Potentilla discolor Bunge

This species is used medicinally.

Herbs perennial. Roots robust, lower parts often enlarged and fusiform. Flowering stems erect, ascending, or subspreading, 10–45 cm tall, together with petioles densely white lanate, sometimes also villous. Radical leaves 4–20 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, white villous; leaf blade with 2–4 pairs of leaflets; leaflets opposite or alternate, at intervals of 0.8–1.5 cm, adaxially dark green, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1–5 cm × 5–8 mm, abaxially densely white or grayish white lanate, inconspicuously veined, adaxially sparsely white lanate or glabrescent, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, or obliquely rounded, margin obtusely serrate, rarely acutely so, apex obtuse, rarely acute; cauline leaves 1 or 2; stipules green, ovate or broadly so, herbaceous, abaxially densely white lanate, margin incised dentate, rarely entire; leaf blade palmately 3–5-foliolate. Inflorescence cymose, laxly several to many flowered. Flowers 1–2 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–2.5 cm, lanate. Sepals triangular-ovate; epicalyx segments lanceolate, shorter than sepals, abaxially white lanate. Petals yellow, obovate, longer than sepals, apex rounded or emarginate. Style subterminal, base thickened, papillate; stigma slightly dilated. Achenes subreniform, ca. 1 mm wide, smooth. Fl. and fr. May–Sep.

Sparse forests, meadows, valleys, ravines. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea].

Potentilla discolor var. formosana (Hance) Franchet; P. formosana Hance.

Potentilla discolor adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Rosaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Rosales. Spesies Potentilla discolor sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Potentilla. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Bunge.

Potentilla discolor là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa hồng. Loài này được Bunge miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1833.

翻白草（学名：Potentilla discolor）为蔷薇科委陵菜属的植物。分布于日本、朝鲜、台灣以及中国大陆的安徽、黑龙江、江苏、湖南、山西、湖北、山东、陕西、河南、河北、广东、四川、江西、浙江、辽宁、福建、内蒙古等地，生长于海拔100米至1,850米的地区，常生长在草甸、沟边、山坡草地、荒地、山谷或疏林下，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。