Creeping Cinquefoil

Potentilla reptans

Plant Data

Order:

Rosales

Family:

Rosaceae (Rose)

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Flowers:

Yellow, 5 petals, buttercup-like with a notch at the end of each petal.

Fruit:

A head of dry greyish-brown tiny nutlets, or achenes.

Leaves:

Long-stalked, alternate, compound leaves, with stipules. 3 to 5 toothed leaflets. The leaves look very similar in appearance to those of Strawberry and Creeping Cinquefoil is often misidentified as Strawberry.

Maximum Size:

15cm tall.

Foraging Notes:

Tea can be made from the roots.
Never consume a wild plant unless you are 100% certain that it is safe to eat and you know that you have identified it correctly.

Other Names:

Common Cinquefoil, Crampweed, Creeping Tormentil, European Cinquefoil, Five Finger Blossom, Five Fingers, Fivefinger Grass, Five-leaf Grass, Goose Tansy, Goosegrass, Moor Grass, Pentaphyllon, Sunkfield, Synkefoyle.

Habitats:

Farmland, grassland, lawns, meadows, roadsides, wasteland, woodland.