Potentilla crantzii(Crantz) Beck ex Fritsch

WFO wfo-0000990434 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Potentilla crantzii, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. a Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / 2021-08-09 / obs. 150323681
Potentilla crantzii, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. b Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 148246242
Potentilla crantzii, photographed by Tero Linjama
fig. c Tero Linjama, CC0 1.0 / obs. 141257486
Potentilla crantzii, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. d Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86996703
Potentilla crantzii, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. e Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86985950
Potentilla crantzii, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80607322
Potentilla crantzii, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48440679
Potentilla crantzii, photographed by Bill Michalek
fig. h Bill Michalek, CC0 1.0 / obs. 46003948

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Native range 56 botanical countries

Regions where Potentilla crantzii is native: Afghanistan, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Iran, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Tuva, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Krym, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland, Nunavut, Ontario, Québec AfghanistanAltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaIranIrkutskKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTuvaUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaPakistanWest HimalayaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyIcelandItalyKrymNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSvalbardSwedenSwitzerlandGreenlandLabradorNewfoundlandNunavutOntarioQuébec Føroyar
Native distribution of Potentilla crantzii, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Iceland ICE
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Svalbard SVA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Altay ALT
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Iran IRN
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Greenland GNL NORTHERN AMERICA
Labrador LAB
Newfoundland NFL
Nunavut NUN
Ontario ONT
Québec QUE
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL
West Himalaya WHM

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Flowering 121 in flower of 127 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Potentilla crantzii observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 121 of 127 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 800 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -20.3 °C -12.1 °C -3.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 9.9 °C 14.1 °C 21.3 °C
Annual rainfall 607 mm 1,248 mm 2,631 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 75 mm 194 mm 483 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 800 research-grade observations of Potentilla crantzii 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 222 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 juranum (Reut.) Fourr.
  • Fragaria crantzii Crantz
  • Fragaria villosa Crantz
  • Potentilla affinis Host
  • Potentilla alpestris Haller f.
  • Potentilla alpestris f. grandiflora Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris f. macropetala Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris f. micropetala Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris f. pygmaea Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris f. septenata Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris f. stenopetala Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris f. trisecta Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris subsp. baldensis (A.Kern. ex Zimmeter) Nyman
  • Potentilla alpestris subsp. gelida (C.A.Mey.) Nyman
  • Potentilla alpestris unranked geranioides (F.Nyl.) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris unranked gracilior W.D.J.Koch
  • Potentilla alpestris var. araratica Medw.
  • Potentilla alpestris var. baldensis (A.Kern. ex Zimmeter) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris var. brotheriana Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla alpestris var. crocea (Haller f. ex Wahlenb.) Hegetschw.
  • Potentilla alpestris var. debilis (Schleich. ex Gaudin) W.D.J.Koch
  • Potentilla alpestris var. filiformis (Vill.) Nyman
  • Potentilla alpestris var. firma W.D.J.Koch
  • Potentilla alpestris var. friesiana (Lange) Th.Wolf

and 198 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.