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Potentilla

not marked as a favorite taxon *Potentilla argentea Linnaeus. Common name: Silvery Cinquefoil, Silvery Five-fingers, Hoary Five-fingers. Phenology: May-Jul. Habitat: Dry fields and roadsides, other disturbed areas. Distribution: Native of Europe.

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Section: Terminales.

Origin/Endemic status: Europe

Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Can, F, FNA9, G, GrPl, Il, Mi, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, Tat, Tn, Va, W; > Potentilla argentea L. var. argentea — K4; > Potentilla argentea L. var. pseudocalabra Th.Wolf — K4. Basionym: Potentilla argentea L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Potentilla argentea - FNA9

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACU
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: UPL
  • Great Plains: FACU
  • Midwest: FACU
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACU

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NCBG trait

Intro: Erect to sprawling perennial of dry fields, roadsides and other disturbed areas. Native of Europe.

Stems: Stems branched, covered with white woolly hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate; upper leaves short petiolate and lower leaves long petiolate; palmately divided into 5-7 leaflets, these narrowly wedge-shaped, 1/2-2 in. long, with pointy lobes/teeth above the middle, hairy and green above and silvery woolly beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in branching clusters of 1-several; yellow; 1/4-1/2 in. wide; consisting of 5 triangular petals, 5 pointed hairy sepals of nearly equal length and visible between the petals, and 20 yellow stamens surrounding the conical yellow center.

Fruits: Fruit an aggregate of tiny achenes.

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Height: to 20 in.

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description: Erect to sprawling perennial of dry fields, roadsides and other disturbed areas. Native of Europe.

stems: Stems branched, covered with white woolly hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate; upper leaves short petiolate and lower leaves long petiolate; palmately divided into 5-7 leaflets, these narrowly wedge-shaped, 1/2-2 in. long, with pointy lobes/teeth above the middle, hairy and green above and silvery woolly beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in branching clusters of 1-several; yellow; 1/4-1/2 in. wide; consisting of 5 triangular petals, 5 pointed hairy sepals of nearly equal length and visible between the petals, and 20 yellow stamens surrounding the conical yellow center.

fruits: Fruit an aggregate of tiny achenes.

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