Argentina (plant)
Genus of flowering plants
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Argentina (silverweeds) is a genus of plants in the rose family (Rosaceae) which is accepted by some authors,[1][2] as containing 71 species,[2] but classified in Potentilla[3][4] sect. Leptostylae by others.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Subfamily: | Rosoideae |
| Tribe: | Potentilleae |
| Subtribe: | Potentillinae |
| Genus: | Argentina Hill |
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The genus is native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, and also in subtropical and tropical southern Asia to New Guinea, and with an outlying species in New Zealand.[2]
Selected species
- Argentina anserina – Common silverweed (syn. Potentilla anserina, Argentina egedii)
- Argentina anserinoides – New Zealand silverweed (syn. Potentilla anserinoides)
- Argentina pacifica – Pacific silverweed
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