Authors: Cav.
with prostrate stems 60-100cm long. Leaves digitate, bright blue-grey, composed of five to seven obovate leaflets which are up-folded and sometimes crimped. Flowers to 3cm across.
bright yellow, from pentagonal pinkish-grey buds, the upper two petals larger than the rest, all toothed and waved, summer. Chile and Argentina, in alpine level Andean earthy screes which are under snow in winter. In the wild the flowers vary in their shades of yellow, and some can be found with a feathered pattern of orange-crimson veins. Although not a climber in the wild, this species will ramble through low shrubs given the opportunity. It is, however, best displayed in a scree or dry wall. A compact growing form with orange flowers having the upper petals red-veined has been distributed as "High Alpine Form" and erroneously as T. myriophyllum q.v. It overlaps with typical polyphyllum in some of its stations in the wild, giving rise to mixed populations with intermediate characters. [Pl.509]
