Species: Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans)
Family: Roses (ROSACEAE)
Category: Flowering Plants
Location: NW
A. Flowering Plants
More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Roses (ROSACEAE)
The Rose family gives us many of our most commercially important fruits, such as the Prunus species. They have alternate leaves and 5-petalled flowers.
C. Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans)
This native plant, flowering from May, may in fact have leaves with from 5 to 7 leaflets. In medieval times it was believed that frogs had a predilection for sitting on this plant (toads preferring to sit under sage), and it was used in many spells and love potions. Leaf extracts have astringent and febrifuge properties, whilst root decoctions help reduce inflammation and the pain of rupture. This plant is said to cure diarrhoea in cats.
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Creeping Cinquefoil
Creeping Cinquefoil is a native plant, flowering from May, that may in fact have leaves with from 5 to 7 leaflets.
Creeping Cinquefoil
This native plant, flowering from May, may in fact have leaves with from 5 to 7 leaflets.
