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|accepted_name=Potentilla cristae
|accepted_authority=Ferlatte & Strother
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=37: 190, fig. 1. 1990
|year=1990
}}
|common_names=Crested cinquefoil
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae;Rosaceae tribe Potentilleae;Potentilla;Potentilla sect. Aureae;Potentilla cristae
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Potentilleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Potentilla]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Potentilla sect. Aureae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Potentilla cristae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 187, 189
|treatment_page=page 191
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>tufted to densely matted; caudex branches usually short, stout, sometimes embedded in old leaf bases. <b>Stems</b> ascending to erect, 0.3–2 dm, lengths 2–3 times basal leaves. <b>Basal</b> leaves not in ranks, ternate, 1–5(–9) cm; stipules: apex acute to obtuse; petiole 1–4 cm, long hairs absent or sparse to common, spreading to ascending, 0.5–2 mm, ± weak, glands sparse to abundant; leaflets 3, central flabellate, 0.4–2 × 0.5–1.5 cm, petiolule 1–3 mm, margins flat, distal 3/4+ deeply 3–5-lobed (sinuses extending 1/2 to nearly to midvein), lobes unevenly incised 1/4–1/2 to midvein, teeth 2–5 per lobe, surfaces similar, dark green, hairs ± sparse, 0.5–1.5 mm, glands sparse to abundant. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–7-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> straight, 0.2–1.2(–2) cm, not much longer in fruit than in flower. <b>Flowers</b>: epicalyx bractlets broadly ovate, 2–4 × 2 mm, margins flat; hypanthium 3.5–6 mm diam.; sepals 3–5 mm, apex broadly acute to obtuse; petals yellow, 3–5.5 × 4–5 mm; filaments 0.7–1.7 mm, anthers 0.5–0.6 mm; carpels 25–40, styles tapered-filiform, ± papillate-swollen in proximal 1/5–/1/3, 1.3–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> 1–1.5 mm, dorsally crested. <b>2n</b> = 42.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Rocky, open, serpentine slopes, in conifer woodlands
|elevation=1800–2800 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Potentilla cristae</i> is known only from Cory Peak, Mount Eddy, and the Marble Mountains in northwestern California. In addition to the characteristics in the key, the species is distinctive in having a low dorsal crest on the achenes, hence the specific epithet.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Potentilla cristae
|authority=Ferlatte & Strother
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Rocky, open, serpentine slopes, in conifer woodlands
|elevation=1800–2800 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1990
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Potentilleae
|genus=Potentilla
|section=Potentilla sect. Aureae
|species=Potentilla cristae
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