Potentilla approximataBunge

WFO wfo-0000984646 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Potentilla approximata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. a Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-14 / obs. 78902552
Potentilla approximata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. b Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78902558
Potentilla approximata, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. c Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78902546

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Potentilla approximata is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Primorye, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Central European Russia, East European Russia AltayKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaPrimoryeTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaCentral European RussiaEast European Russia
Native distribution of Potentilla approximata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 82 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -25.8 °C -19.5 °C -17.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.0 °C 24.2 °C 25.4 °C
Annual rainfall 349 mm 449 mm 661 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 29 mm 54 mm 95 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 82 research-grade observations of Potentilla approximata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.