[4] There is some discrepancy as to who discovered Potentilla robbinsiana, which some sources giving credit to its discovery in 1824 by English botanist and zoologist Thomas Nuttall, five years after completion of the Crawford Path.

[6] It was soon recognized as a rare plant and over 850 specimens were collected and occasionally sold commercially to collectors and herbariums.

A successful awareness program and effort to reroute trails away from its habitat, along with enclosures for the main population, had brought this to over 14,000 plants when it was delisted in August 2002.

[7] Additional efforts included public education, biological research, seed collection and transplantion.

[8] Potentilla robbinsiana is generally placed in the dry/mesic heath meadow system of alpine communities, though it is also found on subalpine bare rock summits.