Creeping Cinquefoil - Potentilla reptans
Description
Low, creeping, invasive plant with long trailing shoots that root at the nodes. Leaves with 5 or 7 leaflets, oblong and toothed. Flowers yellow, 17 to 25 mm, solitary with 5 petals.
Similar Species
several other Potentilla have similar leaves and flowers
Identification difficulty
Habitat
Waste ground, bare places, roadsides.
When to see it
June to September.
Life History
Perennial.
UK Status
Very common throughout Britain.
VC55 Status
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 599 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Sapcote
26 September 2013
Mark Skevington
Huncote Embankment
14 June 2012 Leicester Road before Quarry Sapcote SP 4950 9335 (taken 3.6.2007),..JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
03 June 2007
David Nicholls
New Lount
09 June 2011
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
13 July 2016
growing as a trailing plant
Graham Calow
Road to Hobbs Hayes Farm, Sapcote
26 May 2016
 Leicester Road before Quarry Sapcote SP 4950 9335 (taken 3.6.2007),..JPG)
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Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Whetstone
15 May 2016
David Nicholls
New Lount
09 June 2011
Lostash
Narborough Bog Nature Reserve
05 June 2011
Ron.stevens
Broughton Astley
15 June 2011
David Nicholls
Watermead Country Park
30 November 2009
David Nicholls
Cloud Wood
24 June 2011
David Nicholls
Ratby Disused Railway
09 July 2011
Barbara Cooper
Holwell Nature Reserve
20 June 2012
Alan Semper
Harby footpath
19 June 2012
Alan Semper
Harby footpath
19 June 2012
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
13 August 2012
Alan Semper
Stonesby Quarry
26 June 2013
Lostash
Whetstone GCR Footpath
08 July 2013
Lostash
Whetstone GCR Footpath
08 July 2013
John Hayes
Woodgate Site Burbage
02 September 2013
