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Potentilla / ˌ p oʊ t ən ˈ t ɪ l ə / [1] is a genus containing over 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae. Potentillas may also be called cinquefoils in English, but they have also been called five fingers and silverweeds .
Potentilla simplex is a familiar plant with prostrate stems that root at nodes, with yellow flowers and 5-parted palmately pinnate leaves arising from stolons (runners) on separate stalks. Complete flowers bearing 5 yellow petals (about 4–10 mm long) bloom from March to June. It bears seed from April to July.
Potentilla pusilla, the spring cinquefoil or spotted cinquefoil, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the rose family . [1] It may grow up to the height of 5–15 cm (2-6 in). It was first scientifically described by H.G.L. Reichenbach in 1832. P.F.A. Ascherson later called it P. tabernaemontani, a name which is now invalid.
Potentilla breweri is a species of Potentilla known by the common name Brewer's cinquefoil. It is native to western North America, with populations scattered from southern Washington to south-central California and from the Pacific cordillera inland to the mountains of the Great Basin .
Potentilla reptans, known as the creeping cinquefoil, [1] European cinquefoil or creeping tormentil, is a flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A creeping perennial plant native to Eurasia and Northern Africa, Potentilla reptans has been naturalized elsewhere. [2] Its trailing stems root at the nodes, and leaves are on long stalks. The plant ...
Potentilla recta, the sulphur cinquefoil [1] or rough-fruited cinquefoil, is a species of cinquefoil. It is native to Eurasia but it is present in North America as an introduced species, ranging through almost the entire continent except the northernmost part of Canada and Alaska. The plant probably originated in the Mediterranean Basin.
Drymocallis arguta, commonly known as the tall cinquefoil, [1] prairie cinquefoil, [2] or sticky cinquefoil, [3] is a perennial herbaceous plant native to North America. It was formerly included with the typical cinquefoils in the genus Potentilla .
Potentilla alchemilloides, the alchemilla-leaved cinquefoil, is a species of cinquefoil (genus Potentilla) native to the Pyrenees. [1] It is an upright herbaceous perennial plant reaching 30 cm tall, with palmate leaves with 5-7 leaflets. The flowers are white, with five petals. Potentilla alchemilloides flowers