| Scientific Name: | Potentilla fruticosa ( syn. Dasiphora fruticosa ) |
| Common Name: | potentilla, cinquefoil |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Twiggy, Upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Small garden/space |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Lustrous, Glandular hairs, Odd-pinnate, Ovate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Red, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Small, round deciduous shrub; leaves compound-palmate, with 5(-7) alternating, mostly elliptical leaflets 1-2cm long; flowers 2-4cm wide, 5 petals (commonly yellow), 5 sepals, and many stamens and tiny pistils. Winter ID: very twiggy; bark shaggy, cinnamon coloured; fruit 5-lobed that sometimes persist in winter. | |