It is native to North America where its distribution spans northern Canada and the high mountains of the western United States.
[1][2] It grows at high-latitude and high-elevation habitat, including the Arctic and in alpine climates.
depressum, is endemic to Washington in the United States, where it is limited to the Wenatchee Mountains.
[2] The plants' flowers are similar in appearance to those of species in the Potentilla (or cinquefoil) genus.
Geum rossii has less flowers per stem and leaves which are somewhat fernlike.