Potentilla is a genus containing over 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Spotted Cinquefoil being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Potentilla pusilla
- Potentilla heptaphylla
- Potentilla incana
- Potentilla crantzii
- Potentilla sphenophylla
- Potentilla humifusa
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Potentilla
- Species
- Potentilla verna
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