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 CalowSapcote26 September 2013
Mark SkevingtonHuncote Embankment14 June 2012 Leicester Road before Quarry Sapcote SP 4950 9335 (taken 3.6.2007),..JPG)
Graham CalowSapcote03 June 2007
David NichollsNew Lount09 June 2011
Graham CalowUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm13 July 2016growing as a trailing plant
Graham CalowRoad to Hobbs Hayes Farm, Sapcote26 May 2016
 Leicester Road before Quarry Sapcote SP 4950 9335 (taken 3.6.2007),..JPG)
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Graham CalowCambridge Road, Whetstone15 May 2016
David NichollsNew Lount09 June 2011
LostashNarborough Bog Nature Reserve05 June 2011
Ron.stevensBroughton Astley15 June 2011
David NichollsWatermead Country Park30 November 2009
David NichollsCloud Wood24 June 2011
David NichollsRatby Disused Railway09 July 2011
Barbara CooperHolwell Nature Reserve20 June 2012
Alan SemperHarby footpath19 June 2012
Alan SemperHarby footpath19 June 2012
Barbara CooperLong Clawson13 August 2012
Alan SemperStonesby Quarry26 June 2013
LostashWhetstone GCR Footpath08 July 2013
LostashWhetstone GCR Footpath08 July 2013
John HayesWoodgate Site Burbage02 September 2013
