Creeping Cinquefoil - Potentilla reptans
Low, creeping, invasive plant with long trailing shoots that root at the nodes. Leaves with 5 or 7 leaflets, oblong and toothed. Flowers yellow, 17 to 25 mm, solitary with 5 petals.
Several other Potentilla have similar leaves and flowers.
Waste ground, bare places, roadsides.
June to September.
Perennial.
Very common throughout Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 599 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Creeping Cinquefoil
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 423
- First record:
- 01/07/1998 (John Mousley)
- Last record:
- 05/11/2024 (Dejardin, Andrew)
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