| Scientific Name: | Potentilla nepalensis |
| Common Name: | Asian cinquefoil, strawberry cinquefoil |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Bipinnate, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Orange, Yellow, Pink, Red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves strawberry-like but with 5 leaflets; flowers saucer-shaped, 5-petaled, pink to red with a darker center, about 2.5cm wide, mid summer. | |