Montane, subalpine. Meadows. Summer.
Turkey Spring Trail, June 26, 2007.

This white or creamy-yellow flower is found in dry to moderately moist meadows.  Stems are tall and usually unbranched and leaves are serrated and broken into five to seven leaflets.  Leaves are similar to the very common, yellow-flowered Cinquefoil.  D. arguta is not a common plant and it is even more difficult to find because it often grows in tall grasses, as the picture at left shows.

"Drymocallis" is Greek for "woodland trail".  "Arguta", "sharp-toothed", refers to the leaves.

Linnaeus named the Potentilla genus in 1753, and Frederick Pursh named this species, Potentilla arguta in 1814 from a specimen collected by J. Bradbury.  Per Axel Rydberg renamed the plant Drymocallis arguta in 1898.

See also the   Potentillas   and   Geum aleppicum and Geum macrophyllum.

Montane, subalpine. Meadows. Summer.
Turkey Spring Trail, June 26, 2007.