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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.
Each flower has five calyx lobes, five broad, shallowly-notched petals, thirty stamens, many pistils and a separate gynoecium. The fruit is a receptacle containing several glossy, pale brown achenes. The plant may reproduce by seed or vegetatively by sprouting new shoots from its caudex. Sulphur cinquefoil flowers from June to August. [2] [3]
Potentilla pulcherrima (syn. Potentilla gracilis var. pulcherrima), the beautiful cinquefoil, soft cinquefoil, or whiteleaf cinquefoil, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to Canada, and the north and west-central United States, with a disjunct population in Connecticut. [ 1 ]
Potentilla argentea, known as hoary cinquefoil, [1] silver cinquefoil, [2] silvery cinquefoil, [3] or silver-leaf cinquefoil, [4] is a perennial herb (or forb) in the family Rosaceae. Potentilla argentea is native to Europe, Asia Minor, and Siberia, [ 3 ] and is introduced throughout temperate areas in North America and in New Zealand.
Potentilla reptans, known as the creeping cinquefoil, [1] European cinquefoil or creeping tormentil, is a flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. [ 2 ] Description
Comarum palustre (syn. Potentilla palustris), known by the common name marsh cinquefoil, [1] [2] also purple marshlocks and swamp cinquefoil, is a waterside rhizomatous subshrub. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout cool temperate Asia, Europe, and North America, particularly in northern regions.
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