Species: Potentilla recta http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/forb/potrec/all.html SPECIES: Potentilla recta Choose from the following categories of information. Introductory Distribution and occurrence Botanical and ecological characteristics Fire ecology Fire effects Management considerations References INTRODUCTORY SPECIES: Potentilla recta AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION FEIS ABBREVIATION SYNONYMS NRCS PLANT CODE COMMON NAMES TAXONOMY LIFE FORM © Jennifer Anderson @ FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS © Jim Stasz @ USDA-NRCS USDA-NRCS OTHER STATUS PLANTS Database PLANTS Database AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION: Zouhar, Kris. 2003. Potentilla recta. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/ [2007, September 24]. FEIS ABBREVIATION: POTREC SYNONYMS: None NRCS PLANT CODE [86]: PORE5 COMMON NAMES: sulfur cinquefoil sulphur cinquefoil rough-fruited cinquefoil upright cinquefoil TAXONOMY: 1 of 37 9/24/2007 4:55 PM Species: Potentilla recta http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/forb/potrec/all.html The currently accepted scientific name for sulfur cinquefoil is Potentilla recta L. (Rosaceae) [25,28,35,38,40,41,47,57,62,72,88,90,94]. Sulfur cinquefoil is closely related to other members of the genus Potentilla. Hybrids of sulfur cinquefoil and P. hirta are reported to occur naturally and have been produced under controlled conditions [27]. LIFE FORM: Forb FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS: No special status OTHER STATUS: As of this writing (2003), sulfur cinquefoil is listed as a noxious weed in 5 U.S. states and 1 Canadian province [87] See the Plants or Invaders databases for more information. DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE SPECIES: Potentilla recta GENERAL DISTRIBUTION ECOSYSTEMS STATES/PROVINCES BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS SAF COVER TYPES SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES GENERAL DISTRIBUTION: The following information on the origin, North American introduction, and spread of sulfur cinquefoil is based on reviews [60,70,91], unless otherwise cited. Sulfur cinquefoil is native to the eastern Mediterranean region of Eurasia. It occurs sparsely in England, and occurs in central and southern Europe from central France and Germany to central Spain, Sicily and the Middle East. It is found in western and central Asia to approximately 100 E longitude, and south to Asia Minor and northern Iran. Sulfur cinquefoil also occurs in the mountains of North Africa [91]. More recent field surveys of western, central, and southeastern Europe did not locate sulfur cinquefoil in the upper Rhine valley, Alsace, the Swiss Jura; the alpine regions of Switzerland, Italy, and France; or in eastern Austria, southern Hungary, and northern Romania, although these areas have been listed as within its distribution. The surveys did locate sulfur cinquefoil in Macedonia, northern Greece, western Turkey and Bulgaria [39]. The exact time and place of the original introduction of sulfur cinquefoil to North America is not known. The 1st collection of sulfur cinquefoil in North America was made sometime before 1900 in Ontario. In 1950 its reported distribution was from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to Ontario, with scattered populations in southern British Columbia, and rapidly spreading. By this time, sulfur cinquefoil was also established in the northeastern U.S. and the Great Lakes region [91]. The first known collection in western North America was on western Vancouver Island in 1914. The earliest record of sulfur cinquefoil in the Columbia River Basin was in Idaho in 1934 [70]. By 1940 sulfur cinquefoil had also been identified in Washington [22]. 2 of 37 9/24/2007 4:55 PM Species: Potentilla recta http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/forb/potrec/all.html In North America, sulfur cinquefoil occurs from the eastern coast of Canada and the northeastern seaboard of the U.S. to the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. It is not found north of 53 N latitude. Heavy infestations occur in southern Ontario, Quebec, southern interior British Columbia, the Great Lake states, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Many federal wilderness areas surveyed in the Rocky Mountain region report the presence of sulfur cinquefoil [55]. Scattered populations of sulfur cinquefoil occur in Manitoba, along the Pacific coast from British Columbia south into California [34,60,91], and west into northwestern Nevada [41] and Colorado [90]. In the Great Plains, sulfur cinquefoil is infrequent to locally common in disturbed areas and less frequent in prairies [28]. It extends south into Florida [94] and Texas [18]. The Plants Database provides a distribution map for sulfur cinquefoil. Powell [60] describes the need for an accurate, comprehensive inventory of sulfur cinquefoil in British Columbia. He suggests inventories at a scale relevant to ultimate management units, that include geographic location, plant community type, seral stage, site characteristics, and size, density, and canopy cover of sulfur cinquefoil infestations. Inventories of this nature would help to establish ecological limits and to define potential distributions of sulfur cinquefoil and other nonnative, invasive species in North America. This information could provide objective direction for the nature, degree, and location of management activities. Inventory information can also serve as a baseline for monitoring population dynamics, and the effectiveness of various management activities [60]. The ecological amplitude of sulfur cinquefoil must be determined to confirm which ecosystems and habitat types are suitable to its establishment and persistence, and to define its distribution and potential areas of impact [60]. The following lists are meant to provide some idea of where sulfur cinquefoil might occur or be invasive, but provide no certainty without the aforementioned inventory information. ECOSYSTEMS [24]: FRES10 White-red-jack pine FRES11 Spruce-fir FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine FRES14 Oak-pine FRES15 Oak-hickory FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood FRES18 Maple-beech-birch FRES19 Aspen-birch FRES20 Douglas-fir FRES21 Ponderosa pine FRES22 Western white pine FRES23 Fir-spruce FRES25 Larch FRES28 Western hardwoods FRES29 Sagebrush FRES32 Texas savanna FRES35 Pinyon-juniper FRES36 Mountain grasslands FRES37 Mountain meadows FRES38 Plains grasslands FRES39 Prairie FRES41 Wet grasslands FRES42 Annual grasslands STATES/PROVINCES: (key to state/province abbreviations) 3 of 37 9/24/2007 4:55 PM Species: Potentilla recta http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/forb/potrec/all.html UNITED STATES AL AR CA CO CT DE FL GA ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX VT VA WA WV WI WY DC CANADA AB BC MB NB NF NS ON PE PQ SK BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS [10]: 1 Northern Pacific Border 2 Cascade Mountains 3 Southern Pacific Border 4 Sierra Mountains 5 Columbia Plateau 8 Northern Rocky Mountains 9 Middle Rocky Mountains 10 Wyoming Basin 13 Rocky Mountain Piedmont 14 Great Plains 16 Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands KUCHLER [44] PLANT ASSOCIATIONS: K005 Mixed conifer forest K010 Ponderosa shrub forest K011 Western ponderosa forest K012 Douglas-fir forest K013 Cedar-hemlock-pine forest K014 Grand fir-Douglas-fir forest K015 Western spruce-fir forest K016 Eastern ponderosa forest K017 Black Hills pine forest K024 Juniper steppe woodland K048 California steppe K050 Fescue-wheatgrass K051 Wheatgrass-bluegrass K055 Sagebrush steppe K056 Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe K063 Foothills prairie K064 Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass K066 Wheatgrass-needlegrass K067 Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass K068 Wheatgrass-grama-buffalo grass K069 Bluestem-grama prairie K070 Sandsage-bluestem prairie K074 Bluestem prairie K075 Nebraska Sandhills prairie K081 Oak savanna K082 Mosaic of K074 and K100 4 of 37 9/24/2007 4:55 PM Species: Potentilla recta http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/forb/potrec/all.html K083 Cedar glades K093 Great Lakes spruce-fir forest K095 Great Lakes pine forest K096 Northeastern spruce-fir forest K098 Northern floodplain forest K100 Oak-hickory forest K101 Elm-ash forest K107 Northern hardwoods-fir forest K111 Oak-hickory-pine SAF COVER TYPES [21]: 1 Jack pine 14 Northern pin oak 15 Red pine 16 Aspen 20 White pine-northern red oak-red maple 21 Eastern white pine 39 Black ash-American elm-red maple 42 Bur oak 46 Eastern redcedar 50 Black locust 63 Cottonwood 78 Virginia pine-oak 79 Virginia pine 107 White spruce 201 White spruce 206 Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir 210 Interior Douglas-fir 212 Western larch 213 Grand fir 215 Western white pine 217 Aspen 220 Rocky Mountain juniper 224 Western hemlock 227 Western redcedar-western hemlock 228 Western redcedar 229 Pacific Douglas-fir 235 Cottonwood-willow 237 Interior ponderosa pine 238 Western juniper 244 Pacific ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir 245 Pacific ponderosa pine 251 White spruce-aspen SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES [77]: 101 Bluebunch wheatgrass 102 Idaho fescue 104 Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass 105 Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue 107 Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass 109 Ponderosa pine shrubland 110 Ponderosa pine-grassland 5 of 37 9/24/2007 4:55 PM Species: Potentilla recta http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/forb/potrec/all.html 214 Coastal prairie 215 Valley grassland 301 Bluebunch wheatgrass-blue grama 302 Bluebunch wheatgrass-Sandberg bluegrass 303 Bluebunch wheatgrass-western