Yes Nirupa ji It is Potentilla atrosanguinea with two varieties var. atrosanguinea (red flowers) and var. argyrophylla (yellow flowers).
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Nirupa Subramanyan <nir...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > i have four photgraphs here, two of yellow flowers, one is a red one, > and one is of buds which could be of the red flower. I feel at least > one of the yellow ones is a variant of Cinquefoil, but am not sure of > the other one. > > These are also in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, seen around 12-14000ft asl > > thank you in advance! > > Nirupa >