Potentilla anglica Laich., Veg. Europ. 1: 475 (1790) (syn: Potentilla anglica subsp. nesogenes (Briq.) Gamisans ex M. Kerguélen; Potentilla nemoralis Nestl.; Potentilla procumbens Sibth.; Potentilla procumbens subsp. nesogenes Briq.; Potentilla salisii Bor.; Potentilla tormentilla subsp. procumbens Syme);
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Macaronesia, Europe to Siberia and Turkey as per POWO;
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Belgium, England, Corsica, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, ?Italy, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Latvia, European Russia, Sweden, Australia (I) (Tasmania (I)), Jamaica (I), Lesser Antilles (I) (Martinique (I), Dominica (I)), New Zealand (I), Turkey (WN-Anatolia), Azores (Santa Maria Isl., Sao Miguel Isl., Terceira, Graciosa, Sao Jorge, Pico, Faial, Flores Isl., Corvo Isl.), Madeira (Madeira Isl.), USA (I) (California (I), Colorado (I), Maine (I), New York (I), Oregon (I), Pennsylvania (I)), Canada (I) (Labrador (I), Newfoundland (I), Nova Scotia (I), Quebec (I)), St. Pierre et Miquelon (I) as per Catalogue of Life;
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Potentilla anglica from California-GS1901202
Potentilla anglica Laichard
English Cinquefoil
A very distinctive species with stolons, leaves palmately compound with 3-5 leaflets, flowers arising singly with four sepals and petals each.
Photographed from Sunnyvale, California, 2-10-2012
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A small plant seen in Fremont, with a tiny yellow flower having four petals.
Not sure whether cultivated or growing wild.
If it is the hybrid P. × suberecta Zimmeter it can be found near the parent plants P. erecta and P. anglica.
I hope Potentilla anglica Laichard, characterised by presence of stolons, 3-5 leaflets and 4 sepals and petals
Potentilla rimicola (Munz & I.M.Johnst.) Ertter. ??
This P. anglica has distinctly single flowers, 4 sepals and petals, the only species of genus in California with 4 petals.
https://www.naturespot.org.uk/
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References: POWO Catalogue of Life The Plant List Ver.1.1
http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=289&wildflower=Tormentil,%20Trailing
https://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Potentilla+anglica
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=39674
https://www.first-nature.com/flowers/potentilla-anglica.php
https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/potentilla/anglica/
