Creeping Cinquefoil ( Potentila reptans )

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Family: Rosaceae

Description

Creeping perennial whose trailing stems root at the nodes. Leaves are 5 to 7 lobed and are borne on long stalks. The 5 petalled yellow flowers are 17 to 25 mm across and appear June to August. Widespread and common on grassy places including verges. paths, bare ground or short vegetation, preferring non-acid soils.

Other features: Flowers solitary on long stalks. Has an epicalyx outside the true calyx, like all Potentilla species. Petals heart-shaped, nearly twice as long as sepals. Base-leaves long-stalked and stem-leaves also clearly stalked, unlike those of Tormentil.

 

 

Grazed Edges