Potentilla nivea
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Potentilla |
| Species: | P. nivea
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Potentilla nivea, called the snow cinquefoil, snowy cinquefoil, and villous cinquefoil, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Potentilla, native to Subarctic Asia, North America, Greenland, and Europe, and the Subalpine Rockies and Alps.[1][3] It comes in many ploidy levels; 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x and 10x.[4]
It fwas first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753,[1][2] who described it as living in the alps (habitat in alpibus).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Potentilla nivea L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ^ a b c Linnaeus, C. (1753), Species Plantarum, vol. 1, p. 499
- ^ "Potentilla nivea". wildflower.org. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. 1 January 2007. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ Töpel, Mats; Lundberg, Magnus; Eriksson, Torsten; Eriksen, Bente (2011). "Molecular data and ploidal levels indicate several putative allopolyploidization events in the genus Potentilla (Rosaceae)". PLOS Currents. 3: RRN1237. doi:10.1371/currents.RRN1237 (inactive 3 May 2025). PMC 3097082. PMID 21603100.
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