SHRUBBY CINQUEFOIL 



"Few trailing plants combine a better effect of flower and 

 foliage than our Swamp Blackberry. Its common name suggests 

 wet places as its chosen home, but it is also found in dry sandy 

 soil. It blooms through the most of June. The foliage looks 

 evergreen although it is not, and in the autumn it ranks with 

 woodbine in the brilliancy of its changing tints." 



Garden and Forest. 



SHRUBBY CINQUEFOIL 



Potentilla fruticbsa. 



Potentilla, diminutive of potens, powerful, from the medic- 

 inal properties of some species. Cinquefoil, in reference 

 to the five leaflets of some species. 



Erect or ascending, much branched, very leafy, bark shreddy, 

 six inches to four feet high ; found in swamps, also in moist, 

 rocky places. Ranges from Labrador and Greenland to Alaska, 

 south to New Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains to Arizona and in the Sierra Nevadas to California. Also 

 in northern Europe and Asia. 



Leaves. Alternate, pinnately compound. Leaflets five to 

 seven, oblong or somewhat oblanceolate, entire, acute or acutish 

 at each end, one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, silky 

 pubescent, margins revolute. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 entire. 



Flowers. June to September. Cymose or solitary, bright 

 yellow, about half an inch across. Calyx five-lobed, five-brac- 

 teolate ; corolla of five nearly orbicular petals ; stamens fifteen 

 to twenty; style lateral, threadlike; achenes, disk and recep- 

 tacle long-hairy. 



The Shrubby Cinquefoil can very easily become a 

 weed, for it has learned how to live under adverse 

 conditions and its natural range is enormous. Con- 

 trolled, however, it is an excellent plant to mass in 



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