Potentilla chrysanthaTrevir.

WFO wfo-0001004825 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Potentilla chrysantha, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 205663799
Potentilla chrysantha, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. b Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200229982
Potentilla chrysantha, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. c Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87127866
Potentilla chrysantha, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. d Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75881154
Potentilla chrysantha, photographed by Pavel Komkov
fig. e Pavel Komkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75330434
Potentilla chrysantha, photographed by Pavel Komkov
fig. f Pavel Komkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73748051
Potentilla chrysantha, photographed by Татьяна Фирсова
fig. g Татьяна Фирсова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 73487155
Potentilla chrysantha, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31188400

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Potentilla chrysantha is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Mongolia, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, West Himalaya, Albania, Bulgaria, East European Russia, North European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania AltayBuryatiyaIrkutskKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanMongoliaTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaWest HimalayaAlbaniaBulgariaEast European RussiaNorth European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.Romania
Native distribution of Potentilla chrysantha, 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
Buryatiya BRY
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Mongolia MON
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
East European Russia RUE
North European Russia RUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
West Himalaya WHM ASIA-TROPICAL

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 329 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -23.7 °C -19.2 °C -15.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.5 °C 23.1 °C 24.5 °C
Annual rainfall 443 mm 677 mm 1,094 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 34 mm 90 mm 159 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 329 research-grade observations of Potentilla chrysantha 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 42 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.

  • Potentilla amphibola Schur
  • Potentilla amphibola unranked biserrata Schur
  • Potentilla chrysantha prol. euthuringiaca Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha prol. liocarpa (Vis. & Pančić) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha prol. nestleriana (Tratt.) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha subsp. euchrysantha Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha subvar. biserrata (Schur) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha subvar. calcicola (Schur) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha subvar. oligodonta (Domin) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha unranked elongata Heuff. ex Borbás
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. chrysanthoides Schur
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. concinna Heuff.
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. coronensis (Schur) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. elongata Heuff.
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. genuina Heuff.
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. holopetala (Turcz.) Ledeb.
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. karakoramensis H.Hartmann
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. latefoliolata Rchb.
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. macrophylla Lehm.
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. normalis Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. subalpina (Schur) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. trimera Borbás ex Zimmeter
  • Potentilla chrysantha var. typica Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla chrysanthoides (Schur) Zimmeter

and 18 more.

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.