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Botanical Description

Potentilla gordonii var. lycopodioides and Horkelia lycopodioides). Tufted, from a stout woody rootstock, about 10cm high. Leaves 2-6cm long by 2-5mm wide, the crowded leaflets divided into broadly cuneate thick-textured segments. Flowers yellow, to 5mm wide, in dense headlike cymes, late summer. California and Nevada, alpine fellfields in moist gravelly places. Variable in density of leaflets, some species puberulent to ciliate.