POTENTILLA CANDIDA 11. sp.
Potentilla gracilis var. Wats. King's Exp. 5 : 88. 1871.
Stem low, 1-2 dm. high, densely white silky-strigose ; stipules ovate, entire, nearly I cm. long ; leaves on rather short petioles, densely silvery silky on both sides, digitate; leaflets 7-9, obovate in outline, 2-4 cm. long, rather thick, deeply incised or cleft into large oblong teeth ; cyme rather dense ; flowers about i cm. in diameter; calyx white-silky ; bractlets lanceolate, much shorter than the ovate sepals ; petals yellow, obcordate, a little exceeding the sepals. (Plate 287.)
It resembles most a depauperate P. Blaschkeana, and differs mainly in the pubescence which is very dense on both sides of the leaves, and silky ; tomentum none.
Nevada : S. Watson, no. 337, 1868 (type). .11foutana F.
V. Hayden, 1860. 11/:roming T. C. Porter, 1873.