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Banner Long Ridge, Elk Valley, Kootenays, BC, Canada

Location obscured within 10 km

I'd love to have this identified. I couldn't figure it out even with a park species list. It was large (1+m stems), weak-stemmed and fairly common in moist forest edges in Waterton Lakes NP.

P. litoralis??

Lousy pics and many details missed. Sorry!

Growing on old creek bed, in the riparian zone, very sandy and rocky soil, basically no topsoil.

I believe this is Potentilla gracilis or P. pulcherrima. I forgot my ruler to take measurements this day, I’ll try to update with measurements in another observation.

vouchered

Or Salsola. A sample was pressed. Will likely need to examine the fruits at some point.

Keyed with the Flora of North America. Fruits to 3.5 mm long, wings prominent ~0.5-0.6 mm wide, some rusty brown spots; inflorescences linear.

In sand pit. Follow-up observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132774224