Dasiphora is a genus of in the rose family Rosaceae, native plant to Asia, with one species D. fruticosa (shrubby cinquefoil), ranging across the entire cool temperateness Northern Hemisphere. In the past, the genus was normally included in Potentilla as Potentilla sect. Rhopalostylae,[ but Genetics evidence has shown it to be distinct.][Germplasm Resources Information Network: Dasiphora ][Eriksson, T. et al. (2003). The phylogeny of Rosoideae (Rosaceae) based on sequences of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA and the trnL/F region of chloroplast DNA. Int. J. Pl. Sci. 164: 197–211.][
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The leaf are divided into five (occasionally three or seven) leaflets arranged , whence the name cinquefoil (French, cinque feuilles, "five leaves").
Species
, Plants of the World Online accepts the following species:|
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| Himalaya to Tibet |
| Central Asia to Himalaya. |
| Temp. Northern Hemisphere. |
| Qinghai to China (Sichuan, Yunnan) |
| China |
| SE. Siberia to NE. China |
| E. Primorye |
| S. Russian Far East to China and N. Korea. |
| Central Asia to Siberia and N. & W. China. |
| Afghanistan to Central Asia and Pakistan |
| Tibet. |
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The Flora of China also includes Potentilla bifurca (syn. Sibbaldianthe bifurca) and P. imbricata (syn. Sibbaldianthe imbricata) in this group,[ but these species (which are not shrubs) do not have published combinations in Dasiphora.][International Plant Names Index: Dasiphora]
