HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



when present, of 4 to 5 petals. Flowers, pistillate and staminate 

 in different flowers, in racemes or large compound panicles. Leaves, 

 twice or thrice compound. Leaflets, thin, heart-shaped, lobed| 

 toothed. 



A coarse plant, 4 or 5 feet high, found in woods along the 

 mountains of the Southern States. 



Cinquefoil. Five-finger 



Potentilla monspeliensis. — Family, Rose. Color, yellow. Calyx, 

 large, 5-cieft, with narrow bracts in the recesses. Petals, 5, small. 

 The calyx-lobes project beyond the petals. Stamens, 15 to 20. 

 Flowers, in a small, close, leafy cyme. Leaves, of 3 leaflets, sessile; 

 leaflets rather deeply serrate. 



A branching, hairy species, growing from 6 inches to 2 

 feet high. Stems thick. Flowers crowded and mixed with 

 leaves at the end of the stem. They are insignificant, and 

 the petals soon drop. Most of our cinquefoils have 5 leaflets. 

 This has 3. Common. 



P. recta., — Color, pale yellow. Leaves, palmately divided, 5 

 to 9-foliate, generally 7, deeply toothed along the margins. 

 Stems, upright, stout, hairy. Corolla, large, showy. Petals, 

 notched. June to August. 



Bordering fields and roadsides from Maine to Pennsyl- 

 vania and westward. An imported species. 



Tall Cinquefoil 



P, arguta. — Color, yellow, or sometimes white. Petals, 

 large, about the size of a strawberry blossom. Leaves, pinnate, 

 with 7 to 11 leaflets, oval in shape, downy beneath. A stout, 

 high species with brown and hairy stems 4 feet or less high. June 

 and July. 



Rocky or gravelly soil, northward from New England to 

 the Rocky Mountains, south as far as New Jersey, Illinois, 

 and Kansas. 



Silvery Cinquefoil 



P. argentea. — Color, yellow. The flowers grow in terminal, leafy 

 cymes. Leaves, palmately divided, on long petioles, with small 

 stipules, very white and velvety underneath, shiny, dark green 

 above. Stem, also white-woolly, ascending, 4 to 12 inches long. 

 June to September. 



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