Drymocallis pseudorupestris Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia
Univ. 2 : 194. 1898.
Potentilla pseudorupestris Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 250. 1897.
Drymocallis pseudorupestris intermedia Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 220. 1900.
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Stem erect, slender, striate, 2-3 dm. high, or in lower meadows {D. pseudorupestris intermedia) 4-5 dm. high, branched, with slender ascending branches, sparingly glandularvillous ; stipules ovate, more or less toothed ; basal leaves several, with rather short petioles ; leaflets 7-9, sparingly and finely pubescent or glabrate, the terminal one obovate,
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cuneate-flabelliform, the lateral ones obliquely elliptic or nearly orbicular, all coarsely serrate and incised with ovate mucronulate teeth ; stem-leaves generally few and small, the leaflets 3-5 and more rhombic; cyme open, with ascending branches and slender pedicels; flowers 15-20 mm. in diameter ; hypanthium more or less glandularviscid, villous, in fruit not much enlarged, 8-10 mm. in diameter ; petals white, drying yellowish, broadly obovate, exceeding the sepals by a third ; bractlets oblong or lanceolate, much shorter than the ovate-lanceolate pointed sepals, which are 5-6 mm. long, in fruit 7-8 mm.; stamens about 25 ; anthers flat, a little cordate at the base; pistils numerous.
Type locality : Long Baldy, little Belt Mountains, Montana. Distribution : Mountains from Alberta to northern Wyoming and Idaho.