About Potentilla nivea L.
Potentilla nivea L., commonly known as snow cinquefoil, snowy cinquefoil, and villous cinquefoil, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Potentilla. It is native to Subarctic Asia, North America, Greenland, Europe, as well as the subalpine Rockies and Alps. This species occurs across a wide range of ploidy levels: 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x and 10x. It was first formally described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus, who noted its habitat as the Alps, writing habitat in alpibus.
