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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 aurea, the golden cinquefoil, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. [2] It is native to the mountains of mainland Europe, and has been introduced to Turkey. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] A number of cultivars are available, including 'Aurantiaca', 'Goldklumpen', and 'Plena'.
Dasiphora fruticosa is still widely referenced in the horticultural literature under its synonym Potentilla fruticosa. Common names include shrubby cinquefoil , [ 2 ] golden hardhack , [ 2 ] bush cinquefoil , [ 2 ] shrubby five-finger , [ 3 ] widdy , [ 2 ] kuril tea [ 4 ] and tundra rose .
Potentilla albiflora L.O. Williams – white-flower cinquefoil, Pinaleno cinquefoil, whiteflower cinquefoil; Potentilla ambigens Greene – silkyleaf cinquefoil; Potentilla angelliae N.H. Holmgren – Boulder Mountain cinquefoil, Angell cinquefoil; Potentilla arizonica Greene – Garland Prairie cinquefoil
The inflorescences are cymose, 15–25 cm long, and usually bear 3-10 flowers. Like most Potentilla species, its flowers have five bright yellow petals, 15 stamens, and numerous separate pistils, and are adapted for generalist pollination. Each flower produces a cluster of achenes if successfully pollinated. [2] Two varieties of P. versicolor ...
When first described (as Potentilla veitchii) in 1911, it was said to be similar to Potentilla fruticosa (now Dasiphora fruticosa), being distinguished mainly by its pure white flowers. It had grey-green foliage and could reach a height of 3 to 5 ft (0.9 to 1.5 m).
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.
In the past, the genus was normally included in Potentilla as Potentilla sect. Rhopalostylae, [1] but genetic evidence has shown it to be distinct. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The leaves are divided into five (occasionally three or seven) leaflets arranged pinnately , whence the name cinquefoil (French, cinque feuilles , "five leaves").