Flowers for the garden

Tansy-leaved cinquefoil

Potentilla tanacetifolia Willd. ex Schlecht.

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Family Rosaceae. Native range: Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, Northern China. On stony open slopes, in steppes, in forest clearings and edges.

Stems 10-50 cm tall, erect, less often ascending at the base, glandular in the upper part (mainly in the inflorescence). Basal and lower stem leaves pinnate, green on both sides, especially beneath, more or less pubescent. Leaflets 1-4 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, in 3-6 (7) pairs, incised-toothed. Flowers (8) 10-18 mm in diameter, in a many-flowered corymb-like inflorescence. Calyx slightly shorter than the corolla, sparsely hairy and glandular. Outer lanceolate sepals almost equal to the broader inner ones. Achenes smooth or weakly wrinkled, styles at the base with indistinct or shortened papillae.