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Scientific name:

Potentilla reptans

Vernacular name:

Cinquefoil, Creeping


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Creeping Cinquefoil

Scientific name: Potentilla reptans L.

Diagnostic features
Perennial with persistent basal leaf-rosette and procumbent rooting flowering stems to 1m.
Stem-leaves all palmate with 5 leaflets and petioles all more than 1cm and ± equal-lengthed.
Flowers solitary in stem-leaf axils, all with 5 petals and sepals, 15-25mm across.
Carpels 60-120.
Achenes glabrous.

Chromosome number: 2n=28.

Habitat
Native; rough ground, hedgebanks, sand-dunes and open grassland.

Distribution
Common in British Isles North to South Scotland, very local further North.

This species is keyed out on Page 2293 in the Text Key.

Potentilla reptans
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