Hippiana: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 

	plants of drier habitats; NOT [a plant of aquatic and marshy habitats]
	perennial plant with stout rootstocks, often showing old bases of leaves; NOT [annual or biennial plant without perennial rootstocks]
	plant herb-like, not woody based; NOT [plants shrubby or with woody bases]
	plants NOT caespitose
	plant WITHOUT runners; NOT [low creeping plant with runners]
	plants 15-50 cm tall; NOT [plants mostly 4-10 cm tall]
	plants not usually glandular; NOT [plants glandular pubescent]
	leaves all or mostly pinnate, with the upper stem leaves sometimes trifoliate; NOT [leaves all trifoliate or digitate with 5-7 leaflets] (BF)
	leaves distinctly pinnate; NOT [leaves often indistinctly pinnate, leaflets approximate (subdigitate)] (FOA)
	basal leaves pinnate; NOT [basal leaves trifoliolate or 5-9 digitate] (FOA)
	leaflets mostly 7-11; NOT [leaflets mostly 5-7]
	leaflets longer; NOT [leaflets 1-2 cm long]
	leaflets serrate to shallowly lobed; NOT [leaflets dissected or incised more than halfway to midrib] (BF)
	leaflets divided about half-way to midrib; NOT [leaflets divided almost to the midrib] (FOA)
	leaves white tomentose below; NOT [leaves grayish pilose to hirsute below], NOT [leaflets green on both sides] (BF)
	lower surface of leaves densely white tomentose, frequently overlain with sericeous hairs; NOT [leaves glabrous to variously pubescent but not densely white tomentose below] (FOA)
	flowers born in terminal cymes and not singly; NOT [flowers solitary on naked peduncles, mostly from the nodes of stolons]
	petals yellow; NOT [petals yellowish white], NOT [petals white], NOT [petals reddish purple]
	stamens 5-20; NOT [stamens 25-30]
	styles arising near top of ovary; NOT [styles nearly basal in origin]
	styles tapered from base; NOT [styles slender-fusiform]
	achenes generally smooth; NOT [achenes hairy]

Potentilla: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 

	herbs, or with a woody base and otherwise herbaceous; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	leaves compound; NOT [leaves simple, usually toothed]
	leaves NOT much dissected into linear lobes
	basal leaves with MORE than 3 leaflets
	calyx bractlets present (appearing like 10 sepals); NOT [calyx bractlets lacking]
	hypanthium LACKING hooked prickles
	stamens 10-many; NOT [stamens 5]
	carpels 10-many; NOT [carpels 5-20], NOT [carpels 2]
	styles articulated at base and not jointed near the middle; NOT [styles not articulated at base but often with an abrupt bend or joint near the middle]
	style much shorter than the achene; NOT [style much longer than the achene]
	NOT [style hooked or plumose in fruit]
	style deciduous from the achene, not persisting in the fruit
	carpels becoming achenes NOT [carpels becoming drupelets (raspberry-like)]
	fruit NOT fleshy