Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans, Cúig mhéar mhuire
Photographs: Co. Cork

Creeping Cinquefoil
Potentilla reptans
Cúig Mhéar Mhuire
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering time: June-September. Perennial. Native.

Yellow flowers with 5 petals and sepals growing from the leaf axils. Numerous carpels. Leaves are palmate with 5-7 leaflets. Spreading runners, rooting at nodes. Stems are long, slender and sometimes reddish. Spread: 30-100 cm

Common on wasteland, roadsides and hedgebanks.

Similar:Trailing Tormentil, Potentilla anglica. Yellow flowers with 4 or 5 petals and tri-foliate or palmate leaves.

Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans, Cúig mhéar mhuire

Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans, Cúig mhéar mhuire
Creeping Cinquefoil, Potentilla reptans, Cúig mhéar mhuire

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