Mountainmeadow Cinquefoil

Potentilla ranunculus Lange, FL Dan. 17 50 : 7. 1880
Perennial, with a long cespitose rootstock, thickly covered by brown scale-like remnants
of stipules and petioles ; stems ascending, 1-3 dm. high, glabrate or slightly pubescent,
2-4-flowered and few-leaved; basal leaves digitately 5-foliolate, thin, not strongly veined,
glaucous, glabrous or ciliate ; petioles slender, glabrous, 5-10 cm. long ; leaflets obovate,
deeply 5-7-toothed with large lanceolate teeth ; stem-leaves ternate ; bractlets narrowly
lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long; sepals broadly lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long, acute; petals slightly
emarginate, slightly longer than the sepals, pale-yellow, 7-8 mm. long.
Type locality: Kekertak, Greenland. Distribution : Greenland and Labrador.