Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Potentilla norvegica
FAMILY
Rosaceae
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Strawberry-weed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
This species is apparently a genetically diverse, circumboreal species complex, with both native and introduced elements now present in our area, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Potentilla norvegica ssp. monspeliensis
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Potentilla norvegica
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Potentilla norvegica
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-04-007:
Potentilla norvegica FAMILY Rosaceae
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Potentilla monspeliensis
COMMON NAME:
Strawberry-weed, Rough Cinquefoil, Norwegian Cinquefoil
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_pomo13_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm130114_117
January Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
Initially a rosette of trifoliate basal leaves, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm130114_122
January Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
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JK Marlow jkm121024_738
October Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
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JK Marlow jkm121024_740
October Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
Basal and lower stem leaves trifoliate, upper stem leaves often simple, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm121024_746
October Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
The flowering stalks have long spreading hairs, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
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JK Marlow jkm121024_749
October Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
Under the 5 yellow petals & 5 green sepals, there are 5 green bracts, per www.illinoiswildflowers.info.
COMPARE
sepals and bracts of Cinquefoil and Strawberry species
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Potentilla norvegica
FAMILY
Rosaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Potentilla norvegica ssp. monspeliensis
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Potentilla norvegica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Potentilla norvegica
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-04-007:
Potentilla norvegica
FAMILY
Rosaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Potentilla monspeliensis
3255
Forb
Annual/Biennial/Perennial
Habitat: floodplain forests, alluvial openings; sand bars, pastures, fields, disturbed areas, especially where moist, per Weakley's Flora
Native & non-native
Common in Carolina Mountains, uncommon in GA Mountains & Carolina Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Click here to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Ternately compound
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals/5 bracts
5 petals
20 stamens, usually
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p267
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p314
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p119
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p152
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p070