potentilla

/ ˌpəʊtənˈtɪlə /

noun

any rosaceous plant or shrub of the N temperate genus Potentilla, having five-petalled flowers See also cinquefoil silverweed tormentil

C16: New Latin, from Medieval Latin: garden valerian, from Latin potēns powerful, potent ¹

The mountain dock, mountain dandelion, and potentilla seldom fail to appear later.

Do you think they are men that you bring them potentilla roots?

Potentilla anserina was very plentiful, and remarkably luxuriant.

Now the potentilla shows us, as it were, the primitive form of the strawberry.

This was surrounded by a high wall, and in it the charming Potentilla was imprisoned.

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