Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 6 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | JAP | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Kamchatka | KAM | |
| Korea | KOR | |
| Magadan | MAG | |
| Primorye | PRM | |
| Sakhalin | SAK |
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 278 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -21.5 °C | -13.0 °C | -7.8 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 13.5 °C | 16.0 °C | 20.7 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 720 mm | 1,272 mm | 1,711 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 93 mm | 221 mm | 280 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 278 research-grade observations of Potentilla stolonifera 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 22 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 aemulans var. incisa (Maxim.) Vorosch.
- Potentilla fragarioides Naruh. & Tak.Sato
- Potentilla fragarioides f. pleniflora Sugim.
- Potentilla fragarioides f. trilobata (Franch. & Sav.) Th.Wolf
- Potentilla fragarioides f. vegetior Th.Wolf
- Potentilla fragarioides var. incisa Maxim.
- Potentilla fragarioides var. major Maxim.
- Potentilla fragarioides var. paucifoliolata Sugim.
- Potentilla fragarioides var. sprengeliana (Lehm.) Maxim.
- Potentilla fragarioides var. stolonifera (Lehm. ex Ledeb.) Maxim.
- Potentilla fragarioides var. trilobata Franch. & Sav.
- Potentilla japonica var. quelpaertensis (Nakai) Nakai
- Potentilla munroana Lehm.
- Potentilla munroana var. fuscescens Lehm.
- Potentilla palczewskii Juz.
- Potentilla rufescens Franch. & Sav.
- Potentilla sachalinensis Juz.
- Potentilla sahalinensis Juz.
- Potentilla sprengeliana Lehm.
- Potentilla sprengeliana f. pleniflora (Sugim.) Naruh.
- Potentilla stolonifera var. quelpaertensis Nakai
- Potentilla variabilis Klotzsch ex Lehm.
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.