Common name:
Creeping cinquefoil
Family:
Scientific name:
Potentilla reptans
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK, except the Scottish Highlands
Height:
Up to 15 cm; a creeper, rooting at the leaf nodes
Habitat:
Grassland, verges, waste ground
Flowers:
Solitary, up to 25 mm in diameter; five non-overlapping yellow petals, shallowly notched at the tip, five lance-shaped, pale green sepals and an epicalyx of five lobes, similar in shape but slightly darker in colour and more strongly veined. Flower stalks are sparsely hairy
Leaves:
Palmate, with 5 or 7 hairless, coarsely-toothed leaflets up to 3 cm long, attached by similar-length stalks which have small, untoothed stipules at the base
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
