Potentilla hispidula, commonly known as White Mountains horkelia, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family.

It is a resident of dry scrub and alpine and subalpine forest habitat.

Potentilla hispidula grows as a perennial herb producing a low mat of hairy, glandular greenish gray foliage about a woody base.

The leaves are cylindrical and sometimes taper to a point, growing erect in a patch around the caudex.

Each leaf is up to 10 centimeters long and is made up of crowded pairs of hairy leaflets.