Hybrid cinquefoil

Family Rosaceae. Under this name garden forms and cultivars of hybrid origin obtained with the participation of many species of cinquefoils are grouped.

Perennial plant with an oblique or vertical rhizome. Stems erect, strongly branching, hairy, up to 90 cm high, with a basal rosette of leaves. Lower leaves on long petioles, trifoliate, less often palmate, with broadly lanceolate leaflets, sharply toothed at the margin and hairy on the underside; stem leaves - sessile, trifoliate. Flowers up to 4 cm in diameter, gathered in few-flowered shield-shaped or racemose, loose inflorescences. The corolla is red, yellow, pink or dark purple, velvety. Fruit - an aggregate of achenes.

Most well-known cultivars: 'Master Floris' - abundantly and long-blooming from June to September, flowers large, single, yellow with a reddish tint; 'Yellow Queen' - bushes up to 30 cm high with glossy, yellow flowers.