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### Genuine Potentillae with yellow or yellowish flowers and 
tripartite or fingered leaves, early manyflowered flowersprigs with 4-9 leaves before 
blooming. The flowersprigs do not outnumber the leafrosettes; the stem more or 
less recumbent and rooting. 
* leaves on the central stem paired, tripartite 
P Sibbaldia ( Sibbal.procumbens L.) 
** leaves on central stem in spiral, fingered 
P. vema c. van 
P. saljsburgensis, although many include this in 
the group of P grandiflora with the multi foliated. 
#### Genuine Potentillae with yellow flowers, tripartite or 
fingered leaves, richly blooming flowering branches which vastly outgrow the 
leafrosettes, are stretched out below and have 4-5 leaves before flowering. 
Stem is short and uprightf sine fragmentae radix praenossa) and has for me even 
when old only produced slippery lower leaves. 
*Flowers 5-petaled, stemleaves fingered 
P. Simplex Michx 
** Flowers 4- petaled, three fingered stem leaves 
P. nemoralis Nestl. 
( Tormentilla reptans) 
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