Grobltiges fingerkraut

Potentilla grandiflora is an erect to ascending perennial herb of the Rosaceae family growing 15-50 cm tall from a stout woody rootstock, forming loose tufts of green foliage. Stems are slender, sparsely branched in the upper part, leafy and clothed with appressed to slightly spreading silky hairs. Basal leaves are long-petiolate, palmately compound with three (rarely up to five) leaflets; leaflets are obovate-cuneate, 2-5 cm long, coarsely and bluntly toothed on the apical half, dark green and sparsely hairy above and paler, more densely silky and slightly glaucous beneath. Stem leaves are similar but smaller, shortly petiolate or sessile, with conspicuous leafy stipules. The inflorescence is a loose, few-flowered cyme of one to several large, bright lemon-yellow flowers 2-3 cm across, each with five broad obcordate petals deeply notched at the apex and slightly exceeding the five lanceolate sepals which alternate with five narrower epicalyx segments. Stamens are numerous and the central group of carpels sits on a hairy receptacle. The fruit is a head of small, smooth, ovoid achenes enclosed within the persistent calyx. Native to dry alpine and subalpine pastures, rocky meadows and stony slopes of the central and southern European mountains.