Abbotswood potentilla
Potentilla cinerea
Synonyms: Potentilla vestita, Potentilla arenaria subvar. minutula, Potentilla acaulis subsp. velutina, Potentilla arenaria f. ternata, Potentilla incana subvar. battersbyi, Potentilla cinerea trifoliata, Potentilla cinerea var. clementii, Potentilla subacaulis subsp. albicans, Potentilla cinerea var. ternata, Potentilla cinerea var. discolor, Potentilla opaca var. sericea, Potentilla verna var. velutina, Potentilla battersbyi, Potentilla arenaria subvar. epipsila, Potentilla cinerea var. velutina, Potentilla vivariensis, Potentilla arenaria f. pusilla, Potentilla cinerea f. minutula, Potentilla cinerea var. praetutiana, Potentilla clementei, Potentilla cinerea f. vestita, Potentilla cinerea subvar. incana, Potentilla subacaulis var. clementii, Potentilla cinerea var. trisecta, Potentilla cinerea var. typica, Potentilla velutina var. clementii, Potentilla subacaulis var. velutina, Potentilla polymorpha var. cinerea, Potentilla arenaria var. tommasiniana, Potentilla subacaulis var. latiloba, Potentilla subacaulis var. genuina, Potentilla bolzanensis, Potentilla subacaulis subsp. cinerea, Potentilla zapateri var. longidentata, Potentilla cinerea var. rouxiana, Potentilla arenaria subvar. ternata, Dynamidium subacaule, Potentilla bolzanensis var. macrantha, Potentilla arenaria f. minutula, Potentilla arenaria var. ternata, Potentilla incana var. cinerea, Potentilla acaulis subsp. cinerea, Potentilla incana var. arenicola, Potentilla zapateri, Potentilla cinerea var. concolor, Potentilla praetutiana, Fragaria incana, Potentilla cinerea clementei, Potentilla cinerea var. clementei, Potentilla subacaulis var. albicans, Potentilla cinerea var. battersbyi, Potentilla cinerea subsp. subacaulis, Dynamidium vivariense, Potentilla bescansae, Potentilla cinerea f. epipsila, Dynamidium clementei, Potentilla arenicola, Potentilla subacaulis, Fragaria subacaulis, Potentilla arenaria f. trisecta, Potentilla verna var. vivariensis, Potentilla cinerea f. genevensis, Potentilla cinerea subsp. velutina, Potentilla cinerea var. pusilla, Potentilla cinerea subvar. vestita, Dasiphora subacaulis, Potentilla cinerea f. clementii, Potentilla verna subsp. cinerea, Potentilla subacaulis var. cinerea, Potentilla bolzanensis var. micrantha, Potentilla ovata
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Botanical Description
Potentilla cinerea, the grey or ashy cinquefoil, is a small, mat-forming perennial of the rose family (Rosaceae) native to central and southern Europe and adjacent western Asia, where it grows on dry, stony grasslands, sunny banks and rocky slopes. The species forms low cushions, 5-15 cm tall, of rosulate basal leaves on slender procumbent stems; the leaves are palmately compound with five (occasionally three or seven) obovate leaflets covered above and beneath in dense, soft, star-shaped (stellate) hairs that give the whole plant a characteristic grey-felted appearance. In spring and early summer it produces few-flowered cymes of bright yellow, five-petalled flowers about 10-12 mm across, each with a double involucre of bracts and many short stamens. The fruit is an aggregate of small, dry achenes. Often confused in older floras with P. verna and P. pusilla, the species is now treated as a distinct member of a closely allied complex.
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Traditional American Uses
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