alpine cinquefoil
potentilla crantzii latin

The walls of the fissures were coated with very fine cilia, somewhat like the tiny versions of the hairs on exposed leaves of alpine cinquefoil.

Potentilla crantzii (Alpine Cinquefoil) is a flowering plant of the genus Potentilla in the family Rosaceae.

The name P. verna was misapplied to this species; actually, as originally described by Linnaeus, it refers to the Alpine Cinquefoil (P. crantzii).

In Upper Wharfedale the scars and screes support a range of plants including the Alpine Cinquefoil and Hoary Whitlowgrass.

Lower down the valley, species including Alpine Cinquefoil, Lily-of-the-valley, Mountain Melick and Herb Paris, blue sesleria, Common Valerian and Wild Angelica.

In the shadow of Vatnajokull, we saw arctic river beauty: deep blue, horn-shaped flowers on grasslike stems; elsewhere, we had seen the cottony tufts of artic wool, bluebells and the delicate yellow of alpine cinquefoil.

The larvae feed on Potentilla crantzii, Potentilla frigida and Potentilla grandiflora.