potentilla
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of potentilla
C16: New Latin, from Medieval Latin: garden valerian, from Latin potēns powerful, potent 1
Example Sentences
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Nov. 14, 2003: “What a treat to see late potentilla, pansies and even petunias in bloom. ... These have not been bad replacements for snow at the end of October.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
A few of the most common ground covers include ajuga, jasmine, juniper, ivy, pachysandra, wintercreeper, periwinkle, cotoneaster, potentilla, liriope and partridge berry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its banks are embossed with moss and grass and sedge well mixed with flowers—daisies, larkspurs, solidagos, parnassia, potentilla, strawberry, etc.
From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John
The alpine spiræa grows here also and blossoms profusely with potentilla, erigeron, eriogonum, pentstemon, solidago, and an interesting species of onion, and four or five species of grasses and sedges.
From The Yosemite by Muir, John
I saw it go with the children to school in a single treasured blossom, or trailing the Sunday trippers in dropped sprays of hepatica and potentilla back from the Jersey shore.
From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter
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