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§1 Plant

Potentilla pensylvanica L. var. pensylvanica

vernacular Pennsylvania cinquefoil — variety · Rosaceae


USDA
POPEP5
GBIF
5368602 syn.
Rank
variety
Pennsylvania cinquefoil (Potentilla pensylvanica var. pensylvanica)
Platephotograph · grungaloo source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Rosaceae Juss.
Genus
Potentilla
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 138 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 138 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 138 counties across 9 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 2 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 22 N
Montana view state ↗ 31 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 9 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 10 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 41 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 21 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/POPEP5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5368602 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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