Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, 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.
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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 49 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -18.4 °C | -15.2 °C | -8.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 10.1 °C | 13.7 °C | 18.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,481 mm | 1,762 mm | 2,735 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 194 mm | 316 mm | 484 mm |
It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 49 research-grade observations of Potentilla brauneana 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 25 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Dynamidium minimum (Haller f. ex Bonnier & Layens) Fourr.
- Fragaria dubia Crantz
- Potentilla brauneana var. auricoma Tratt.
- Potentilla dubia (Crantz) Zimmeter
- Potentilla dubia f. australis Beck
- Potentilla dubia var. gadensis Beck
- Potentilla dubia var. typica Beck
- Potentilla frigida subsp. minima Haller f. ex Bonnier & Layens
- Potentilla frigida var. brauneana DC.
- Potentilla frigida var. dubia (Crantz) Vill.
- Potentilla grandiflora var. dubia (Crantz) Vill.
- Potentilla minima Haller f.
- Potentilla minima Haller f.
- Potentilla minima var. brauneana (DC.) Ser.
- Potentilla minima var. luxurians Beck
- Potentilla minima var. major Lehm.
- Potentilla minima var. robbinsiana Lehm.
- Potentilla minima var. typica Beck
- Potentilla rubens var. aurantiaca Th.Wolf
- Potentilla rubens var. gadensis (Beck) Poeverl.
- Potentilla rubens var. glandulosa R.Keller ex Siegfr.
- Potentilla rubens var. typica (Beck) Poeverl.
- Potentilla verna var. dubia (Crantz) Fiori
- Potentilla verna var. minima (Haller f. ex Bonnier & Layens) Fiori
and 1 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.