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Scientific name:

Potentilla anserina

Vernacular name:

Silverweed


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Silverweed

Scientific name: Potentilla anserina L.

Diagnostic features
Perennial with long procumbent stolons and terminal leaf-rosettes.
Leaves pinnate, with (3)7-12 pairs of narrowly elliptic-oblong main leaflets alternating with small ones.
Flowers solitary in leaf-axils on stolons, on erect pedicels to 25cm.
Petals yellow, 7-10mm,c.2x as long as sepals.
Achenes glabrous.

Chromosome number: 2n=28, 42.

Habitat
Native; waste places, waysides, pastures and sand-dunes.

Distribution
Common throughout British Isles.

This species is keyed out on Page 2287 in the Text Key.

Potentilla anserina (Silverweed)
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