Seasonal Wild Flowers

Creeping Cinquefoil

Potentilla reptans

Rosaceae

June to September

It is found throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Creeping Cinquefoil

It grows in open woodland, grassland and waste ground,

on hedgebanks and banks, and by roads, paths and

railways.

Creeping Cinquefoil is a native, perennial , stoloniferous,

spreading prostrate herb.

The 5-merous, yellow flowers are up to 2.5cm, yellow and

on longish stems.

The sepals are pointed with fewer extensions than in

Silverweed.

Leaves are palmate and the leaflets are toothed.

It reproduces by seed and spreads rapidly by runners

(stolons), which root at the nodes, sometimes 1m or