Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Potentilla drummondii is a species of cinquefoil known by the common name Drummond's cinquefoil. It is native to North America from Alaska to California, where it grows in many types of moist habitat. It is perhaps better described as a species complex containing many intergrading subspecies that readily hybridize with other Potentilla species. The plant is variable, growing decumbent or erect, small and tufted or up to 60 centimeters tall, hairless to woolly. The leaves are divided into several leaflets, which may be cut into lobes or toothed. The inflorescence is a cyme of several flowers. Each has a small corolla of yellow petals, each petal one half to one centimeter in length.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

6 - 24 in Tall

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Color

Yellow

Plant communities

Lodgepole Forest, Shadscale Scrub, Subalpine Forest, Wetland-Riparian

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

1 confirmed and 9 likely

Confirmed Likely

Dark Marbled Carpet

Dysstroma citrata

Eupithecia nimbicolor

Satyr Pug

Eupithecia satyrata