Potentilla hyparcticaMalte

WFO wfo-0001006187 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Potentilla hyparctica, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-01 / obs. 151476699
Potentilla hyparctica, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. b Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44158131
Potentilla hyparctica, photographed by Rose Zappa
fig. c Rose Zappa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 23194220
Potentilla hyparctica, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. d Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8919292
Potentilla hyparctica, photographed by Christoph Moning
fig. e Christoph Moning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60365131
Potentilla hyparctica, photographed by Eric Lamb
fig. f Eric Lamb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169535222
Potentilla hyparctica, photographed by Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov)
fig. g Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50493252
Potentilla hyparctica, photographed by Samuelle Simard-Provençal
fig. h Samuelle Simard-Provençal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204223235

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02210006
Filed as
Potentilla hyparctica Malte
Det. by
D. E. Atha 2013-01-01
Collected
D. E. Atha 2013-06-18
Origin
US
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 27 botanical countries

Regions where Potentilla hyparctica is native: Afghanistan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Pakistan, West Himalaya, North European Russia, Svalbard, Sweden, Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Greenland, Labrador, Montana, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec, Washington, Wyoming, Yukon AfghanistanKamchatkaKhabarovskKirgizstanKrasnoyarskMagadanTadzhikistanUzbekistanWest SiberiaYakutiyaPakistanWest HimalayaNorth European RussiaSvalbardSwedenAlaskaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaGreenlandLabradorMontanaNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutQuébecWashingtonWyomingYukon
Native distribution of Potentilla hyparctica, 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
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Greenland GNL
Labrador LAB
Montana MNT
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Québec QUE
Washington WAS
Wyoming WYO
Yukon YUK
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Tadzhikistan TZK
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
North European Russia RUN EUROPE
Svalbard SVA
Sweden SWE
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL
West Himalaya WHM

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 144 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -35.8 °C -28.2 °C -18.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 3.1 °C 10.4 °C 16.2 °C
Annual rainfall 218 mm 428 mm 870 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 22 mm 64 mm 112 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 144 research-grade observations of Potentilla hyparctica 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 28 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 borissii Ovcz. & Kochk.
  • Potentilla emarginata Pursh
  • Potentilla emarginata f. integriloba Hultén
  • Potentilla emarginata f. tardinix Polunin
  • Potentilla emarginata subsp. nana (Th.Wolf) Hultén
  • Potentilla emarginata var. elatior Abrom.
  • Potentilla emarginata var. typica Abrom.
  • Potentilla flabellifolia var. emarginata B.Boivin
  • Potentilla fragiformis f. nana Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla gelida f. glabrior (C.A.Mey.) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla gelida f. pilosior (C.A.Mey.) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla gelida subsp. boreojacutica Jurtzev
  • Potentilla gelida subsp. borissii (Ovcz. & Kochk.) Soják
  • Potentilla gelida subsp. elongata Ovcz. & Kochk.
  • Potentilla gelida subsp. hyparctica (Malte) Kozhevn.
  • Potentilla gelida var. adusta Rupr.
  • Potentilla gelida var. glabrior C.A.Mey.
  • Potentilla gelida var. major Turcz.
  • Potentilla gelida var. minor Turcz.
  • Potentilla gelida var. pilosior C.A.Mey.
  • Potentilla gelida var. subnivosa Krasnob.
  • Potentilla groenlandica R.Br.
  • Potentilla hyparctica f. tardinix (Polunin) Savile & Calder
  • Potentilla hyparctica subsp. nana (Th.Wolf) Hultén

and 4 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.