Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 25 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | AFG | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Altay | ALT | |
| Buryatiya | BRY | |
| China North-Central | CHN | |
| Chita | CTA | |
| Inner Mongolia | CHI | |
| Iran | IRN | |
| Irkutsk | IRK | |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | |
| Kirgizstan | KGZ | |
| Krasnoyarsk | KRA | |
| Manchuria | CHM | |
| Mongolia | MON | |
| North Caucasus | NCS | |
| Qinghai | CHQ | |
| Tibet | CHT | |
| Türkiye | TUR | |
| Tuva | TVA | |
| West Siberia | WSB | |
| Xinjiang | CHX | |
| East Himalaya | EHM | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Pakistan | PAK | |
| West Himalaya | WHM | |
| Central European Russia | RUC | EUROPE |
| East European Russia | RUE |
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 286 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -29.0 °C | -24.3 °C | -17.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 16.5 °C | 20.5 °C | 24.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 188 mm | 303 mm | 662 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 6 mm | 13 mm | 91 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 286 research-grade observations of Potentilla sericea 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 11 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.
- Fragaria sericea (L.) Crantz
- Potentilla alexeenkoi Lipsky
- Potentilla dasyphylla Bunge
- Potentilla holosericea Nutt.
- Potentilla kasachstanica Kamelin
- Potentilla polyschista Boiss. & Hohen.
- Potentilla sericea f. akbaitalensis O.Fedtsch. ex Th.Wolf
- Potentilla sericea f. alpina Th.Wolf
- Potentilla sericea var. dasyphylla (Bunge) Ledeb.
- Potentilla sericea var. genuina Trautv.
- Potentilla sericea var. tshifuensis T.Itô
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.