Scientific Name
Potentilla recta
Common Name
Rough-fruited cinquefoil
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Height:
1 to 2 feet
Flower/fruit:
Flat terminal cluster of .5 to 1 inch pale yellow flowers with five petals
Flowering Season:
Spring into summer
Foliage:
Leafy, hairy multi-branched stem; leaves have 5 to 7 narrow, coarsely toothed, 1 to 3 inch leaflets; runners up to 3 feet
Site:
Roadsides, fields
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