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Potentilla anserina (view source)
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Potentilla anserina, Linn. Silver-weed. Fig. 3158. Caudex thick ; sts. simple, slender, prostrate and creeping, rooting at the nodes, often 2 1/2 or 3 ft. long, bearing solitary, long-peduneled fls. at the nodes, pilose-sericeous with ascending or somewhat spreading hairs : basal Ivs. numerous, large, pinnate, mostly short-pedicelled; Ifts. many pairs, decreasing in size downward, with minute ones interspersed, linear-oblong to oblong-ovate,1/2 - 1 1/2 % in. long, sharply serrate, green or whitened above, densely white to lustrous silky-tomentose beneath, very rarely green both sides: fls. large, 8-10 lines broad; appendages usually lobed; petals obovate, entire, exceeding the sepals, golden yellow; carpels at maturity glabrous, thick, ovoid, corky, dorsally furrowed; style lateral, filiform. May-Aug. Gravelly, more or less calcareous shores. Most widespread of all potentillas, through the cold and temperate portions of all countries except possibly Afr. Very decorative.
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