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Ternate-Leaved Cinquefoil
Potentilla norvegica
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Ternate-Leaved Cinquefoil is an annual or short-lived plant with small yellow flowers. It often turns up on disturbed ground such as fields, roadsides and waste places. It is widespread across the Northern Hemisphere.
Did you know?
- As the fruits ripen, the green points beneath the petals keep growing and make a star around the seed head.
- Its leaves are usually in threes, unlike many other cinquefoils.
About the species
Identification
Upright plant 20–50 cm tall with thick, green, hairy stems that branch above the middle. Leaves mostly three-part (three leaflets), sometimes five; the middle part may be shallowly three-lobed. Leaf parts are oval to narrow, coarsely toothed, green on both sides. Flowers are small and yellow (petals about 4–5 mm) in loose, branched clusters. The green pointed parts under the petals are often as long as or longer than the petals and lengthen around the seed head, giving a starry look. Many tiny hard seeds form inside the enlarged green cup. Similar cinquefoils often have more than three-part leaves. Flowers June–September.
Plant group
Herbaceous plants
Habitat
yards and roadsides
Flowering
Jun–Sep
About the habitat
Open, disturbed places such as arable fields and their margins, garden soil, roadsides, waste ground and shores. Common throughout the country; rare in Lapland.
Sources
Photo: ИринаЯ, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Лапчатка цветок крупно (Саратов).jpg
Text: Pinkka: Verso- ja leviäintunnistus - Kaikki leviäimet, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38856
Text: Pinkka: Verso- ja leviäintunnistus - Kaikki versot, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38856
Text: Pinkka: A Pohjolan kasveja - Laburnum-Luzula, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38856
Text: Pinkka (Luomus), CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38856
Text: Pinkka: IPS-153 Flora of Subarctic Europe - Nardus-Pyrola, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.38856
Text: Wikipedia (Finnish), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltohanhikki
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