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Questions and Answers: 2018

Question: Hello kind sir, I have looked through the potentilla's and none of the images quite match this variety. Do you …

  • Question

    Hello kind sir, I have looked through the potentilla's and none of the images quite match this variety. Do you recognize it?

    Answer

    Dear TrishBerube, the plant looks very much like Potentilla argentea (silver-leaved cinquefoil), a species with gray-white hairs on the underside of the leaves. This is a common species over much of the northeastern United States in open fields, along roadsides, etc.