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Common or Old-field Cinquefoil

Potentilla simplex

Rose Family - Rosaceae

The compound leaves have 5 leaflets in which the coarse teeth tend to be confined to the upper three-quarters of each leaflet. Stems may be reddish in colour with limited hairs.

(Photographed - June & July)

This low, trailing and weak-stemmed herb has single, 5-petalled, yellow flowers (about ½ inch wide) borne on long stalks that arise from the leaf axils.