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The cinquefoil emblem was used generously in the architecture of numerous churches built in Normandy and Brittany through the 15th century. From the 11th to 14th century, the word potence, related to potentilla, was used mainly in a military context and to describe the condition of the soul.
Potentilla drummondii is a species of cinquefoil known by the common name Drummond's cinquefoil. It is native to North America from Alaska to California, where it grows in many types of moist habitat. It is perhaps better described as a species complex containing many intergrading subspecies that readily hybridize with other Potentilla species ...
Potentilla simplex, also known as common cinquefoil or old-field five-fingers or oldfield cinquefoil, is a perennial herb in the Rosaceae (rose) family native to eastern North America from Ontario, Quebec, and Labrador south to Texas, Alabama, and panhandle Florida.
Typically, the number of cusps can be three , four , five (cinquefoil [1]), or a larger number (multifoil). [2] The word comes from Latin folium which meaning “leaf.” [ 3 ] Foil motifs may be used as part of the heads and tracery of window lights , complete windows themselves, the underside of arches, in heraldry , within panelling, and as ...
Cinquefoil or Potentilla is a genus containing over 300 species of flowering plants in the rose family. Cinquefoil may also refer to: Comarum, a genus of plants formerly included with Potentilla; Dasiphora, woody cinquefoils; Drymocallis, a genus formerly included with Potentilla; Sibbaldiopsis, three-toothed cinquefoil
Potentilla pensylvanica (P. pensylvanica)is a species of cinquefoil known by the common names Pennsylvania cinquefoil [1] and prairie cinquefoil [2] and in the language Shoshoni, it goes by the name Ku'-si-wañ-go-gǐp. It is native to much of northern and western North America, including most of Canada and the western half of the United States.
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 reptans, known as the creeping cinquefoil, [1] European cinquefoil or creeping tormentil, is a flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. [2] Description.