Potentilla neglecta
Potentilla neglecta
Synonyms: Potentilla absinthiifolia, Potentilla cinerea, Potentilla magyarica, Potentilla argentea var. dissecta, Potentilla wallrothii, Potentilla × collina var. tenerrima, Potentilla pseudocalabra, Potentilla impolita subsp. acutifida, Potentilla argentea subsp. ujhelii, Potentilla argentea var. tenerrima, Potentilla argentea subvar. tenerrima, Potentilla acutifida, Potentilla impolita subsp. tenerrima, Potentilla decora, Potentilla argentea var. neglecta, Potentilla tephrodes, Potentilla neglecta var. pseudocalabra, Potentilla neglecta var. dissecta, Potentilla argentea var. tephrodes, Potentilla impolita subsp. magyarica, Potentilla argentea subvar. absinthiifolia, Potentilla impolita subsp. pseudocalabra, Potentilla argentea var. cinerea, Potentilla neglecta var. acutifida, Potentilla neglecta var. decora, Potentilla incanescens, Potentilla incanescens f. typica, Potentilla tenerrima, Potentilla argentea f. incanescens, Potentilla argentea var. incanescens, Potentilla argentea subsp. magyarica, Potentilla albipellis, Potentilla dissecta, Potentilla argentea var. decora, Potentilla argentea var. acutifida, Potentilla argentea var. pseudocalabra, Potentilla argentea subvar. magyarica, Potentilla argentea subsp. dissecta, Potentilla impolita subsp. decora, Potentilla impolita subsp. dissecta, Potentilla leucochroa, Potentilla albovillosa
Western Herbalism Properties
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Botanical Description
Potentilla neglecta is a perennial herb of the Rosaceae family, a member of the silver cinquefoil (P. argentea) aggregate, standing 15-40 cm tall from a slender woody rootstock. The flowering stems are ascending to decumbent, slender, often reddish, and clothed in a mixture of long spreading and shorter appressed white hairs. The leaves are alternate, palmately compound with five (rarely seven) narrowly oblong-obovate leaflets 1.5-3 cm long and 4-10 mm wide; each leaflet is sharply pinnately lobed in the upper half with revolute margins, dark green and shortly pubescent on the upper surface, and densely covered beneath by a white felt of stellate and silky tomentum that gives the foliage its characteristic silvery appearance. Stipules at the base of the leaves are lanceolate and membranous. The inflorescence is a loose terminal cyme of several to many small flowers on slender pedicels. Each flower is 8-12 mm across, with five spreading bright pale-yellow obovate petals slightly exceeding the five lanceolate sepals and the five narrow epicalyx segments. Numerous stamens surround a small central head of free carpels. The fruit is an aggregate of small smooth ovoid achenes about 1 mm long borne on a dry hairy receptacle. Native to dry sandy or gravelly grasslands, heaths and road verges across central and northern Europe.
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Traditional American Uses
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