Potentilla tridentata
Wineleaf Cinquefoil, Three Toothed Cinquefoil
2-8
Northeastern North America
Prostrate spreader
2-6 inches tall
W
hite flowers, ¾ inch wide, borne in a sparsely branched cyme.
Late spring to midsummer.
Palmately compound, 3 leaflets. Leaflets leathery, evergreen, cuneate-oblong, 3-5 notches at tip, usually glabrous. The foliage is shiny green.
'Minima' - Low growing selection, 3 inches tall. This form makes a nice “carpet” over the soil.
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