Look in mountain meadows and forest openings for a densely branching, low-mounding shrub 1–3 feet tall and wide (30–90 cm), with tiny, hairy leaflets, and showy, yellow flowers with oval petals. This popular landscape plant has more that 150 cultivars developed.

FLOWERS: June–September. Solitary or few on branch tips; flowers cup-shaped, 3/4–1 1/4 inches wide (2–3 cm) with 5 petals, numerous stamens.

LEAVES: Alternate; blade pinnately compound with 3–7 crowded leaflets, 1/4–1 inch long (5–25 mm), linear to oblong; surfaces silky-hairy, edges often rolled under.

HABITAT: Moist meadows, forest openings, stream sides; ponderosa-Douglas fir, spruce-fir, subalpine forests, alpine meadows.

ELEVATION: 7,500–12,500 feet (2286-3810 m).

RANGE: Rocky Mt. states and westward, across northern tier of states to Maine; Canada, circumboreal.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Flowers similar to herbaceous cinquefoils, Potentilla species, but Dasiphora has a distinct bushy, shrubby growth.

NM COUNTIES: Widespread, common in NM mountains at mid- to high-elevation, moist habitats: Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Grant, Guadalupe, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Rio Arriba, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Union.