Potentilla longifoliaWilld. ex D.F.K.Schltdl.

WFO wfo-0001016002 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Potentilla longifolia, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-12 / obs. 158442728
Potentilla longifolia, photographed by Dmitry Kulakov
fig. b Dmitry Kulakov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86632049
Potentilla longifolia, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. c Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84716196
Potentilla longifolia, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156893506
Potentilla longifolia, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152935024
Potentilla longifolia, photographed by Natalya Ivanova
fig. f Natalya Ivanova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25050069
Potentilla longifolia, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151192197
Potentilla longifolia, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. h Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85014741

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Potentilla longifolia is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Tibet, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, East European Russia AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiTibetTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaEast European Russia Korea
Native distribution of Potentilla longifolia, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Tibet CHT
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
East European Russia RUE EUROPE

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 836 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -28.9 °C -25.7 °C -17.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.3 °C 24.1 °C 25.1 °C
Annual rainfall 287 mm 389 mm 655 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 10 mm 29 mm 73 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 836 research-grade observations of Potentilla longifolia 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 8 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.

  • Drymocallis viscosa Rydb.
  • Potentilla hispida Nestl.
  • Potentilla longifolia var. villosa F.Z.Li
  • Potentilla opaca var. longifolia Borbás ex Zimmeter
  • Potentilla tanacetifolia var. longifolia (Willd. ex D.F.K.Schltdl.) Vorosch.
  • Potentilla viscosa Fedde
  • Potentilla viscosa Donn
  • Potentilla viscosa var. macrophylla Kom.

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.