Siberian-tea
StarDrymocallis rupestris
Synonyms: Drymocallis inquinans, Drymocallis rubricaulis, Potentilla rupestris subvar. humilis, Potentilla rupestris var. macrocalyx, Potentilla foliosa, Potentilla rupestris f. villosa, Potentilla rupestris var. orientalis, Potentilla rupestris f. idaea, Potentilla rupestris var. villosa, Potentilla rupestris, Potentilla rupestris var. foliosa, Potentilla rupestris var. gracilis, Potentilla rupestris subsp. jailae, Potentilla rupestris var. grandiflora, Potentilla banatica, Potentilla rupestris var. rubescens, Potentilla rupestris subvar. rubricaulis, Potentilla rupestris var. subalpina, Potentilla rupestris var. typica, Potentilla rupestris var. saxicola, Potentilla rupestris var. strigosa, Potentilla rupestris var. beniczkyi, Potentilla macrocalyx, Potentilla rupestris subvar. normalis, Potentilla rupestris f. orientalis, Potentilla rupestris f. asperula, Drymocallis jailae, Potentilla rupestris var. eriotricha, Potentilla rupestris f. chloropoda, Fragaria rupestris, Potentilla jailae, Drymocallis rupestris subsp. banatica, Argentina rupestris, Potentilla rupestris var. banatica, Drymocallis rupestris subsp. jailae, Potentilla beniczkyi
Western Herbalism Properties
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Botanical Description
Drymocallis rupestris is an erect perennial herb of the Rosaceae family, growing 20 to 60 centimetres tall from a stout, woody, branching rootstock, with one or several glandular-pubescent, often reddish-tinged flowering stems. The pinnately compound basal leaves, 10 to 25 centimetres long, bear two or three pairs of opposite lateral leaflets and a much larger terminal leaflet, each leaflet broadly ovate to nearly orbicular, 2 to 6 centimetres long, with coarsely serrate margins, a rounded apex and a softly hairy, slightly grey-green surface; the cauline leaves are smaller and progressively less divided. From late spring through early summer the loose, open, terminal cymes carry several to many comparatively large white flowers, each 1.5 to 2.5 centimetres across, with five rounded petals slightly longer than the green, lanceolate sepals and an alternating epicalyx, and numerous yellow stamens around a central head of carpels. The fruit is a head of small, dry, hairless achenes enclosed in the persistent calyx. Native to dry rocky slopes, screes and crevices of limestone and granite in the mountains and uplands of Europe, central Asia and northwestern North America.
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