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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.
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 effusa Douglas ex Lehm. – branched cinquefoil; Potentilla furcata A.E. Porsild – forked cinquefoil; Potentilla glaucophylla Lehm. Potentilla grayi S. Watson – Gray's cinquefoil; Potentilla hickmanii Eastw. – Hickman's cinquefoil, Hickman's potentilla; Potentilla holmgrenii D.F. Murray & Elven – Holmgren's cinquefoil ...
Potentilla erecta is a low, clump-forming plant with slender, procumbent to arcuately upright stalks, growing 10–30 centimetres (3.9–11.8 in) tall and with non-rooting runners. It grows wild predominantly in Europe and western Asia [1] , mostly on acid soils and in a wide variety of habitats such as mountains, heaths, meadows, sandy soils ...
Potentilla reptans grows in neutral soils, where it utilizes both natural and manmade habitats such as grasslands, hedgerows, roadsides and arable land. [7] The species can also grow in grass lawns and flowerbeds as an unwanted weed. [8] The grizzled skipper butterfly (Pyrgus malvae) utilizes Potentilla reptans as a foodplant for its ...
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Drymocallis is a genus of plants formerly (and sometimes still) included with the typical cinquefoils (Potentilla). It contains three species known or suspected to be protocarnivorous, [1] but more cinquefoils might eventually be moved here: [2] [3] Drymocallis arguta (Pursh) Rydb. – tall cinquefoil, cream cinquefoil; Drymocallis glandulosa ...
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.