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Potentilla sterilis

barren strawberry

Other common names
strawberry-leaved cinquefoil
Synonyms
Potentilla fragariastrum
Potentilla fragaria
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Botanical details
Family
Rosaceae
Native to the UK
No
Genus

Potentilla

Genus description

Potentilla can be herbaceous perennials, deciduous shrubs, or annuals, with palmately or pinnately divided leaves and solitary or clustered, saucer-shaped, 5-petalled flowers appearing over a long period

Name status

Correct

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