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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Rosaceae
Potentilla recta L.
rough-fruited cinquefoil, sulphur cinquefoil, sulphur five-fingers
Potentilla: comes from the Latin diminutive of potens meaning "powerful" in reference to the medicinal properties of some species
recta: upright, erect
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 16"-32" tall, hairy forb, unbranched to the inflorescence |
| Flower: | pale yellow, 5-parted, 3/4" wide; inflorescence of many flowers in flattened, branched cluster (cyme); blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | dry seed |
| Leaf: | palmately-divided, deeply-toothed; lower leaves long-stalked with 5-7 leaflets; upper leaves smaller, shorter stalked and with 3 leaflets |
| Habitat: | dry; disturbed sites |
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