BUSH CINQUEFOIL 



Potentilla fruticosa Linnaeus 



Bush cinquefoil is one of the showiest plants of the Canadian 

 Rockies, where it seems to find congenial surroundings almost every- 

 where, flourishing in alpine meadows or on mountain slopes, and some- 

 times at high elevations, struggling against the mountain winds and 

 other adverse conditions to obtain a foothold. In midsummer it is 

 covered with clear yellow flowers, which appear to greater advantage 

 by reason of the silver-gray foliage that forms their background. In 

 moist limestone soils in New England it is classed as a weed, because of 

 its invasion of idle fields and pastures. 



This member of the Rose Family is found from California, New 

 Mexico, and New Jersey northward to Alaska, central Canada, and 

 Labrador, as well as in Europe and Asia. 



The specimen sketched was collected on the trail below Burgess 

 Pass, six miles from Field, British Columbia, at an altitude of 5,000 feet 



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