Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Dasiphora fruticosa [Dasiphora floribunda] [Pentaphylloides fruticosa] [Pentaphylliodes floribunda] [Pentaphylloides floribunda] [Potentilla floribunda] [Potentilla fruticosa]
- Family
- Rosaceae
- CommonName
- shrubby cinquefoil
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1924
- LatestDate
- 2020
- Ecosystem
- basin, foothill, montane, subalpine, tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, LBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta
- Passes
- Carnero, Cochetopa, Cumbres, La Manga, Los Pinos, North, South, Spring Creek, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Brown Lakes, Coller, Rio Grande
- Other Localities
- La Botica
- Comments
- Dasiphora fruticosa is extremely common around the Watershed, occupying a range of vegetative zones, including the alpine. There is only one record from the Basin (Alamosa Co, along Hwy 285 near the town of Conejos) and none from the Culebras, although there are plenty from the Rio Grande drainage Cristos of New Mexico, down nearly to the border with Texas. The plant can be found in all USA states west of the Great Plains, and around the Great Lakes into New England. The hardiness of Dasiphora fruticosa makes domesticated varieties popular. In the past Dasiphora was included in the genus Potentilla, but genetic analysis argues that the two general are distinct (e.g., Feng, T., et al., 2022). Commoners, usually not acquainted with chloroplast DNA fragment sequencing, coalescent simulation, and other techniques of gene analysis, still include Dasiphora within Potentilla in their common name for the species: "bushy cinquefoil" (cinquefoil = five leaves).
- Annotation