Potentilla hippiana
Potentilla hippiana is a species of flowering plant, known by the common names woolly cinquefoil, horse cinquefoil, and Hipp's cinquefoil, in the rose family, Rosaceae.It is native to North America, where it occurs in western Canada and the western United States. It occurs in eastern Canada and the US state of Michigan as an introduced species.
This perennial herb grows up to tall from a thick caudex and taproot. The leaves are up to long or more and each is made up of several toothed leaflets. The leaves may be hairless to hairy to woolly. The fruit is a tiny achene. This species hybridizes with several other cinquefoil species, such as beautiful cinquefoil and elegant cinquefoil.
This plant grows in a variety of habitat types, including grassland, forest, meadow, and sagebrush communities. It may occur in dry or wet habitat, several soil types, flat territory and slopes, and a range of temperatures. It can be found at elevation in subalpine and alpine climates. Plant species occurring with this cinquefoil in multiple habitat types include prairie junegrass, elk sedge, western yarrow, silvery lupine, common dandelion, and beautiful fleabane.
This species was named by the botanist Johann Georg Christian Lehmann for his friend, Charles Friedrich Hipp.