Potentilla newberryi A. Gray

Newberry's cinquefoil

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON DISTRIBUTION GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:
Newberry's cinquefoil occurs from south-central Washington, south through eastern Oregon to northeast California and northwest Nevada [2]. NatureServe provides a distributional map of Newberry's cinquefoil.

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:
Newberry's cinquefoil is most commonly found in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) woodland communities [11,14,15].

Newberry's cinquefoil is a community dominant in the following vegetation types in Oregon:

• silver sagebrush (Artemisia cana)/Newberry's cinquefoil/mat muhly (Muhlengergia richardsonis)-Baltic rush (Juncus balticus)-sedge (Carex spp.)[14].
• silver sagebrush/bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides spp. elymoides)-Newberry's cinquefoil
• Newberry's cinquefoil
• sedge-Baltic rush-Newberry's cinquefoil
• lupine (Lupinus spp.)-Newberry's cinquefoil-mat muhly-Baltic rush-sedge
• beethistle (Eryngium articulatum)-Newberry's cinquefoil-smartweed (Polygonum spp.)-navarretia (Navarretia spp.)
• Baltic rush-mat muhly-Newberry's cinquefoil-tansyleaf evening primrose (Camissonia tanacetifolia ssp. tanacetifolia)-lupine
• mat muhly-Newberry's cinquefoil-willow dock (Rumex salicifolius)
• silver sagebrush/Newberry's cinquefoil-bottlebrush squirreltail [11].
• bottlebrush squirreltail-Newberry's cinquefoil [12]

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The scientific name of Newberry's cinquefoil is Potentilla newberryi Gray (Rosaceae) [2,4,5,6].