Sibbaldia procumbens

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl. 1: 284. 1753.

Common names: Sibbaldie couchée
Illustrated
Synonyms: Potentilla sibbaldii Haller f.
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 298. Mentioned on page 299.
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Leaves: stipules 3–6 mm, membranous; petiole (0.5–) 1–9 (–12) cm; leaflets dark green abaxially, light green adaxially, sessile or petiolulate, 0.5–2.5 (–3) × 0.2–1.5 (–2) cm, teeth roundish, mucronate, surfaces sparsely appressed-pilose. Pedicels 1–3 (–5) mm, usually minutely stipitate-glandular. Flowers: epicalyx bractlets often becoming reddish with age, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1–3.5 mm, shorter than sepals, sparsely hirsute or strigose; sepals often becoming reddish with age, 2.5–5 mm, strigose to sparsely pilose; anthers 0.3–0.5 mm; styles 0.4–0.7 mm. Achenes greenish brown to dark-brown. 2n = 14.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Dry rocky to gravelly flats and slopes, often in tundra near ocean in the north to subalpine and alpine settings above timberline in the south, snow beds, damp, south-facing herb banks
Elevation: 0–3800[–4200] m

Distribution

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Greenland, Alta., B.C., Nfld. and Labr., N.W.T., Nunavut, Que., Yukon, Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N.H., N.Mex., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo., Mexico, Eurasia

Discussion

Sibbaldia procumbens is circumpolar and is common from southern Greenland (to near 72° N) to the Aleutian Islands (to 166° W) of westernmost Alaska. It ranges southward in the Coast Ranges to the Siskiyou-Trinity Mountains, as well as Lassen Peak and Mt. Shasta of northern California, and farther inland to the Sierra-Cascade axis as far south as the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California, isolated mountain ranges in the central Great Basin, down the Rocky Mountains to the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona, and to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico. Farther south it reaches an elevation of more than 4200 m in the state of México. In eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, it is known from Labrador, the Long Range Mountains of Newfoundland, the Shickshock Mountains of the Gaspé, Quebec, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Sibbaldia procumbens"
greenish brown +  and dark-brown +
horseshoe--shaped +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
Barbara Ertter +  and James L. Reveal +
Linnaeus +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
bluntly ovate +  and obovate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
reduced +
free +  and distinct +
Sibbaldie couchée +
Greenland +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.W.T. +, Nunavut +, Que. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Ariz. +, Calif. +, Colo. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Nev. +, N.H. +, N.Mex. +, Oreg. +, Utah +, Wash. +, Wyo. +, Mexico +  and Eurasia +
not +  and aggregated +
0–3800[–4200] m +
strigose +  and hirsute +
linear +  and narrowly lanceolate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and aggregated +
deciduous +
0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br /> (0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br />) +
Dry rocky to gravelly flats and slopes, often in tundra near ocean in the north to subalpine and alpine settings above timberline in the south, snow beds, damp, south-facing herb banks +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
glabrous +  and strigose +
(1-)3-12-flowered +
crassinucellate +
marcescent +
deciduous +
petiolulate +  and sessile +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
light green +  and dark green +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +  and broadly elliptic or obovate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (?) +  and 1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
(2-)3(-5)[-7]-toothed +
inferior +  and superior +
clustered +, biseriate +  and superposed +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
curved +  and straight +
stipitate-glandular +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
free +  and distinct +
oblanceolate +
9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
Flowering summer. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
erect +  and spreading +
strigose +  and sparsely pilose +
broadly lanceolate +  and ovate +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Illustrated +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
green +  and reddish +
prostrate +  and ascending +
1 +  and 10 +
palmate +  and pinnate +
lanceolate;ovate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
membranous +
deciduous +
distinct +
clavate +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br />) +
appressed-pilose +
Potentilla sibbaldii +
Sibbaldia procumbens +
Sibbaldia +
species +
mucronate +  and roundish +
inconspicuous +
hemispheric +
enlarged +
sparsely strigose +  and subappressed pilose +