Navajo Cinquefoil

Potentilla subviscosa Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8 : 97. 1881
Perennial, with a tap-root and short caudex ; stems many from the caudex, prostrate or spreading, sparingly hirsute and glanduliferous especially upward ; stipules ovatelanceolate, acute, entire ; basal leaves numerous, digitately (or seldom closely pinnately) 5-foliolate with the lower leaflets smallest ; petioles 3-5 cm. long, sparingly hirsute, puberulent ; stem-leaves reduced and ternate ; leaflets -A cm. long, obovate or cuneate in outline, deeply cleft into oblong or linear-oblong divisions, and the middle one often 3-divided to near the midrib, hirsute on the veins, puberulent and more or less glanduliferous ; hypanthium glanduliferous and puberulent, in age generally brownish and 5-7 mm, in diameter ; bractlets oblong-ovate, obtuse, 2-2.5 mm. long, shorter than the ovate, acute or obtuse sepals ; petals cuneate or spatulate, about 5 mm. long and one half longer than the sepals ; style short, glandular-thickened at the base ; stamens 10; pistils about 15.
Type locality : Mogollon Mountains, New Mexico.
Distribution : Mountains of Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.