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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 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 jepsonii Ertter; Potentilla johnstonii Soják ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Potentilla" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total. ... Potentilla recta; Potentilla reptans; Potentilla rhypara;
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 ...
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 .
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").