Other conspecific taxa:

• Potentilla anserina subsp. anserina (0 accessions)
• Potentilla anserina subsp. groenlandica (0 accessions)
• Potentilla anserina subsp. pacifica (0 accessions)

Common names:

• anserina  (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2) - English
• goose-grass  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• goose-tansy  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• silverweed  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• silverweed cinquefoil  (Source: Names Beetle) - English
• wild tansy  (Source: Zander ed17) - English
• Gänse-Fingerkraut  (Source: Zander ed17) - German
• gåsört  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• jue ma  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbal Drugs; Herbs Commerce ed2, as Argentina anserina)
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Amur, Kamchatka, Kurile Islands, Primorye, Sakhalin]
• CHINA: China [Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Hokkaido, Honshu]

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India (n.w.), Nepal, Pakistan

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Portugal, Spain

Northern America

• SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada, [Yukon Territory] Greenland, United States [Alaska]
• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana (n.), Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio (n.), Pennsylvania (n.w.), Rhode Island, Vermont]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois (n.), Iowa (w.), Minnesota (w.), Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon (e.), Washington (e.), Wyoming]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Utah]


Naturalized (natzd. in s. temperate regions)

References:

1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
2. Beetle, A. A. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31. 1970 (Names Beetle)
3. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables. 1974 (Weed TabCIBA)
4. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002 (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
5. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
6. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984- (F Bhutan)
7. Grubov, V. I. Key to the vascular plants of Mongolia. 2001 (Pl Mongol)
8. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982 (L Nepal)
9. Hitchcock, C. L. et al. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. 1955-1969 (F Pacif NW)
10. Hultén, O. E. G. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories. (F AlaskaHult)
11. Iwatsuki, K. et al. Flora of Japan. 1993- (F Japan)
12. Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles Arizona flora, ed. 2. (F Ariz)
13. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
14. Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US)
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19. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=29465. Accessed 2 julio 2024.