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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 1 to 2 feet
Plant Spread: 1 to 2 feet
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Time: Summer
Uses: Will Naturalize
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Sulphur Cinquefoil
  • Sulfur Cinquefoil
  • Upright Potentilla
  • Upright Cinquefoil
  • Rough-Fruited Cinquefoil
  • Sulphur Five-Fingers

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Location: Aberdeen, NC Pages Lake park
Date: May 30, 2023
Margined Calligrapher on Sulfur Cinquefoil #465; RAB p. 535, 97-4
Location: Aberdeen, NC Pages Lake park
Date: May 30, 2023
Sulfur Cinquefoil #465; RAB p. 535, 97-4-6; LHB p. 527; AG p. 158
Location: Aberdeen, NC Pages Lake park
Date: May 30, 2023
Sulfur Cinquefoil #465; RAB p. 535, 97-4-6; LHB p. 527; AG p. 158
Location: Aberdeen, NC (my garden 2022)
Sulfur Cinquefoil #465; RAB p. 535, 97-4-6; LHB p. 527; AG p. 158
Location: Tuttle Marsh Wild Life Area, Oscoda, Michigan
Date: 2014-07-10
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-06-04

photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher
Location: growing wild in SE Michigan
Date: 2015-06-16
Location: growing wild in SE Michigan
Date: 2015-06-16
Location: growing wild in SE Michigan
Date: 2015-06-16
Location: growing wild in SE Michigan
Date: 2015-06-16
Location: Tuttle Marsh Wild Life Area, Oscoda, Michigan
Date: 2014-07-10
Location: Tuttle Marsh Wild Life Area, Oscoda, Michigan
Date: 2014-07-10

Photo by Leo Michels

Photo by Leo Michels
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-06-04
Comments:
  • Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on Mar 26, 2018 12:27 PM concerning plant:
    Class B noxious weed in Washington state (do not allow to spread). Can form dense stands displacing natives, reduced forage as it is not palatable to either livestock or wildlife. Hand pull, dig out, or over-plant with competitive native grasses.
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