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Trailing Tormentil, Potentilla anglica, Néalfartach shraoilleach

Trailing Tormentil
Potentilla anglica
Néalfartach shraoilleach
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering time: June-September. Perennial. Native.

Solitary yellow flowers with 4 or 5 petals and usually 20+ carpels. Leaves usually tri-foliate, can also be palmate. Shorter stalk on upper leaves, lower leaves with longer stalk. Persistent basal rosette. Trailing stems, rooting at tips. Hybrids occur with Tormentil, P. erecta.

Fairly frequent on paths, banks and roadsides throughout Ireland

Similar: Creeping Cinqeufoil, P. reptans has 5-petalled flowers


Trailing Tormentil, Potentilla anglica, Néalfartach shraoilleach

Trailing Tormentil, Potentilla anglica, Néalfartach shraoilleach
Trailing Tormentil, Potentilla anglica, Néalfartach shraoilleach
Photographs: Co. Cork

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