Potentilla crebridensJuz.

WFO wfo-0001006154 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Potentilla crebridens, photographed by John Brew
fig. a John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-09-03 / obs. 24413426
Potentilla crebridens, photographed by John Brew
fig. b John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24430156
Potentilla crebridens, photographed by Юлия
fig. c Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156926290
Potentilla crebridens, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156926317
Potentilla crebridens, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156926347
Potentilla crebridens, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156926389
Potentilla crebridens, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156926679
Potentilla crebridens, photographed by Евгений Егорейченков
fig. h Евгений Егорейченков, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190836536

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K004507429
Filed as
Potentilla crebridens Juz.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
Wang, T.P. 1931-07-05
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Potentilla crebridens is native: Altay, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Magadan, Tuva, Alaska, Yukon AltayBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaIrkutskKazakhstanMagadanTuvaAlaskaYukon
Native distribution of Potentilla crebridens, 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
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Magadan MAG
Tuva TVA
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Yukon YUK

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.

Also published as 4 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 matsuokana subsp. crebridens (Juz.) Soják
  • Potentilla matsuokana subsp. hemicryophila (Jurtzev) Soják
  • Potentilla nivea var. crebridens (Juz.) Malyschev
  • Potentilla nivea var. elongata Th.Wolf

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.

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