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Scientific name:

Potentilla intermedia

Vernacular name:

Cinquefoil, Russian


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Russian Cinquefoil

Scientific name: Potentilla intermedia L.

Diagnostic features
Biennial or perennial with erect to ascending stems to 50cm arising from leaf-rosette.
Leaves palmate, the lower with 5 leaflets.
Flowers in terminal cymes.
Petals yellow, 4-5mm, c. as long as sepals.
Stamens c.20.
Achenes glabrous.

Chromosome number: (2n=28, 42,56).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; casual in waste and grassy places, sometimes more or less naturalized.

Distribution
Scattered in England; Russia.

This species is keyed out on Page 2299 in the Text Key.

Potentilla intermedia
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