| Taxon | Potentilla breweri |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Rosaceae |
| Family common name(s) | rose; rosewort; roseworts |
| Genus common name(s) | potentilla; cinquefoil; cinque-foil; cinque foil; synkefoyle; synke-foyle; synke foyle; cinkfoyl; cink-foyl; cink foyl; five-leaved grass; five leaved grass; five-leafed grass; five leafed grass; five-leaf grass; five leaf grass; fiveleaf grass; five-fingered grass; five fingered grass; five-finger grass; five finger grass; fivefinger grass; fivefinger-grass; sunkfield |
| Species common name(s) | Brewer's potentilla; Brewer's cinquefoil; Brewer potentilla; Brewer cinquefoil; Sierra cinquefoil; Sierran cinquefoil |
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| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | mountain cinquefoil, slender cinquefoil are applied to multiple Potentilla taxa; five-finger, five finger, fivefinger, five-fingers, five fingers, prince's feather, prince's-feather are applied taxa in multiple families |
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| Notes | Brewer, is proper names, so upper case preferable; Brewers is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Potentilla drummondii Lehm. subsp. breweri (S. Watson) Ertter |
