Index / Search / Potentilla glandulosa
§1 Plant
Potentilla glandulosa Lindl.
vernacular sticky cinquefoil — species · Rosaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rosaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Potentilla
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 229 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–35 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–8
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 1.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,969,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 229 counties across 12 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
California view state ↗ 50 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Alpine 06003
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Orange 06059
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Sierra 06091
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
Colorado view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Ada 16001
- Adams 16003
- Bear Lake 16007
- Benewah 16009
- Blaine 16013
- Boise 16015
- Bonner 16017
- Bonneville 16019
- Butte 16023
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Clearwater 16035
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Fremont 16043
- Gem 16045
- Gooding 16047
- Idaho 16049
- Kootenai 16055
- Latah 16057
- Lemhi 16059
- Lewis 16061
- Lincoln 16063
- Madison 16065
- Owyhee 16073
- Power 16077
- Shoshone 16079
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
- Valley 16085
- Washington 16087
Montana view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Big Horn 30003
- Carbon 30009
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Granite 30039
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- Missoula 30063
- Park 30067
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Sanders 30089
- Stillwater 30095
- Teton 30099
- Wheatland 30107
Nevada view state ↗ 15 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Baker 41001
- Benton 41003
- Clackamas 41005
- Clatsop 41007
- Columbia 41009
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Deschutes 41017
- Douglas 41019
- Gilliam 41021
- Grant 41023
- Harney 41025
- Hood River 41027
- Jackson 41029
- Jefferson 41031
- Josephine 41033
- Klamath 41035
- Lake 41037
- Lane 41039
- Linn 41043
- Malheur 41045
- Marion 41047
- Multnomah 41051
- Polk 41053
- Sherman 41055
- Tillamook 41057
- Umatilla 41059
- Union 41061
- Wallowa 41063
- Wasco 41065
- Washington 41067
- Wheeler 41069
- Yamhill 41071
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Adams 53001
- Asotin 53003
- Chelan 53007
- Clallam 53009
- Clark 53011
- Columbia 53013
- Cowlitz 53015
- Douglas 53017
- Ferry 53019
- Garfield 53023
- Grant 53025
- Jefferson 53031
- Kittitas 53037
- Klickitat 53039
- Lewis 53041
- Lincoln 53043
- Okanogan 53047
- Pacific 53049
- Pend Oreille 53051
- Pierce 53053
- Skamania 53059
- Snohomish 53061
- Spokane 53063
- Stevens 53065
- Walla Walla 53071
- Whatcom 53073
- Whitman 53075
- Yakima 53077
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/POGL9 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5365778 ↗Record version
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