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§1 Plant

Potentilla pulcherrima Lehm.

vernacular beautiful cinquefoil — species · Rosaceae


USDA
POPU9
GBIF
5365568
Rank
species
beautiful cinquefoil (Potentilla pulcherrima)
Platephotograph · carsonhvCC BY-NC 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

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

County-level range

· 108 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 108 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 108 counties across 9 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 3 N
Colorado view state ↗ 35 N
Idaho view state ↗ 5 N
Montana view state ↗ 4 N
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 14 N
Utah view state ↗ 23 N
Washington view state ↗ 6 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 16 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/POPU9 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5365568 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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