Flowers for the garden

Hairy cinquefoil

Potentilla villosa

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Family Rosaceae. Native to: North America, Chukotka. Occurs on rocks and rocky slopes of marine terraces, coastal meadows and pebble beaches.

Perennial up to 25 cm tall. Plant densely woolly-hairy. Stems ascending. Leaves trifoliate, densely hairy above, white-woolly beneath. Leaflets from rounded to oblong-ovate, with margins deeply toothed, teeth narrowly lanceolate or linear. Flowers up to 2 cm in diameter.