ROSE FAMILY. Rosacese 



UKlJt Silverweed 



Potentilla 

 Anserina 

 Yellow 

 May- 

 September 



Five=finger or 



Cinquefoil 



Potentilla 



simplex 



Yellow 



April-August 



The silverweed is decoratively beautiful, 

 and is remarkable for its very silky hairs 

 which cover the under side of the leaves ; 

 the latter are tansylike with about 7-23 

 sharp-toothed leaflets. The j^eilow flowers 

 are solitar}^ Stem 1-3 feet long. In salt 

 marshes and on wet meadows, from Me., south to N. J., 

 and west to Neb. Common on the beaches of Lake 

 Champlain. 



The commonest of all the five-fingers, 

 often wrongly called wild strawberr}', 

 with pure yellow flowers about ^ inch 

 broad. It decorates meadow and pasture, 

 fertile and sterile grounds, and weaves its 

 embroidery over the stony and barren 

 roadside. Its five deep green, shiny, long-stalked leaf- 

 lets are sharply toothed, firm, and smooth, altogether 

 harder in character than the three strawberry leaflets. 

 The whole plant is generally smooth, but sometimes 

 thinly hairy. Flowers solitar}', fertilized mostly by the 

 flies of the genus Syrphidce. Runners 6-20 inches long. 

 Common everywhere in the north. From southern 

 Me. , N. H. , Vt. , and N. Y. , west to Minn. The common 

 similar form (or species) is Potentilla Canadensis, which 

 is fine-woolly over the stems, and does not creep over 

 the ground so characteristically as P. simplex. 



A most common weed with a glandular- 

 hairy simple stem, and compound leaves 

 with a hairy stalk ; spicy odored when 

 crushed. The usually seven bright green, 

 many - ribbed ovate leaflets coarsely 

 toothed ; the interposed tiny leaflets are 

 ovate and toothed ; there are generally three pairs 

 occupying the spaces between the larger lateral leaflets. 

 The slender spikes of five-petaled yellow flowers with 

 orange anthers are not show}-. The seeds are sticky and 

 adhere to one's clothing. 2-4 feet or more high. Com- 

 mon on the borders of woods and in thickets. Me., 

 south to N. Car., and west. Found on the roadside near 

 the Profile House, Franconia Notch, N. H. 



Agrimony 



Agrimonia 

 Eupatoria 

 var. hirsuta 

 Yellow 

 June-August 



