Low growing plant, plant in above photo only 2 cm tall. Many stems from a woody caudex. Flowers have yellow petals with orange colouring near their base. Flowers are 1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves are palmately arranged in 5 leaflets, leaf with petiole measures 3.5 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves are dark green and silky hairy above, and densely hairy below giving the leaves a white underside, and a silver edge.

Common on dry prairie and hillsides.

We took these photos May 7th, in grassland in the Cypress Hills, 400 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.

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