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Potentilla atrosanguinea; photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAVinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Potentilla atrosanguinea G.Lodd.

Rosaceae · Tibet, East Himalaya +2

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Potentilla atrosanguinea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPotentilla atrosanguinea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPotentilla atrosanguinea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPotentilla atrosanguinea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPotentilla atrosanguinea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPotentilla atrosanguinea, photograph Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Potentilla atrosanguinea, the dark crimson cinquefoil, Himalayan cinquefoil, or ruby cinquefoil, is a species of Potentilla found in Bhutan and India.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Potentilla atrosanguinea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Potentilla

Potentilla is a genus containing over 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Potentilla", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeTibet, East Himalaya, Nepal, West Himalaya · introduced: Germany · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “subalpine or subarctic” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Potentilla 106 in the reference

Potentilla acaulis Potentilla acaulis Stemless cinquefoil Photo: CC0, author not statedPotentilla alba Potentilla alba White cinquefoil Photo: CC BY, Мирослав СоболевPotentilla alchimilloides Potentilla alchimilloides Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, frangpPotentilla anglica Potentilla anglica Trailing tormentil Photo: CC0, author not statedPotentilla apennina Potentilla apennina Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Emanuele SantarelliPotentilla argentea Potentilla argentea Hoary cinquefoil Photo: CC0, author not statedPotentilla argyrophylla Potentilla argyrophylla Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Siddarth Machado Potentilla articulata Rosaceae Potentilla astracanica Potentilla astracanica Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Dmitriy BochkovPotentilla aurea Potentilla aurea Dwarf yellow cinquefoil Photo: CC0, author not statedPotentilla bipinnatifida Potentilla bipinnatifida Bipinnate cinquefoil Photo: CC0, author not statedPotentilla brachypetala Potentilla brachypetala Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Maria Kohanovskaya all 107 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Potentilla atropurpurea; Potentilla atrisanguinea; Potentilla argyrophylla var. atrosanguinea; Potentilla atrosanguinea var. gibsonii. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
G.Lodd.
Native to
Tibet, East Himalaya, Nepal +1
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Potentilla atrosanguinea G.Lodd. (plant_name_id 2953596), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 727690-1, POWO 727690-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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