Seasonal Wild Flowers

Silverweed

Potentilla anserina

Rosaceae

May to August

It is found throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Silverweed

It grows on dry, damp or flooded soils, in grassland and

on bare ground in a range of habitats, e.g., by paths

and roads, on waste ground, dunes and saltmarshes,

and by concrete paving.

Silverweed is native, creeping, spreading, prostrate,

stoloniferous, perennial herb.

Flowers are bright golden yellow, 5-merous, up to 2cm

across and on longish stems (up to 25cm).

Sepals are oval with triangular, toothed projections.

Leaves are silvery green and silky, with oval, toothed

leaflets.

The extent of silveriness is variable.

Silverweed spreads mainly by its rooting stolons, which

can extend for 80cm before rooting.

A Silverweed trail occurs when the colony spreads in

only one direction.

Silverweed patch

Single flower - sramens and carpels

Triangular, toothed extensions of sepals

Silvery, silky leaves and leaflets

Stolons

New growth from rooted stolon