CINQUEFOIL

sĭngkˈfoil [O.Fr.,=five leaves], name for any plant of the widely distributed genus Potentilla of the family Rosaceae (rose family), chiefly herbs of north temperate and subarctic regions. Most cinquefoils are perennial; many but not all of them have leaves of five leaflets, for which they are also called five-finger. The flowers are most often yellow. Most North American species are native to cooler regions of the W United States. The shrubby cinquefoil (P. fruticosa) and the silverweed (P. anserina) are common wildflowers in the West and the Northeast; they are thought to be naturalized from the Old World. These and other species are sometimes cultivated in rock gardens. Silverweed is one of the species reputed to have medicinal powers, hence the Latin name of the genus [potens=powerful]. Cinquefoil is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.

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books on: Cinquefoil  - 186 results

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Spring Flora of Missouri
Book by Julian A. Steyermark; Missouri Botanical Garden, 1940
Subjects: Botany--Missouri
...half as long as the calyx 2. ROUGH CINQUEFOIL P. norvegica var. hirsuta 6. Leaflets...than half as long as the calyx 3a. CINQUEFOIL P. Rivalis var. millegrana 7. Most...16-9/32 5- 7 mm. long 1. TALL CINQUEFOIL P. arguta 8. Plants of low or alluvial...
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Guide to the Vascular Flora of Illinois
Book by Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Southern Illinois University Press, 1975
Subjects: Botany--Illinois, Plants--Identification
5. P. simplex Michx. Common Cinquefoil. May-June. Stems villous or...var. calvescens Fern. Common Cinquefoil. May-June. Stems and lower...var. argyrisma Fern. Common Cinquefoil. May-June. Stems spreading...
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The Ferns and Flowering Plants of Central Pennsylvania
Book by James Peter Kelly; Pennsylvania State College, 1937
Subjects: Botany--Pennsylvania, Ferns--Pennsylvania
...Tall Cinquefoil, POTENTILLA ARGUTA 6. Flowers yellow...Cinquefoil, POTENTILLA CANADENSIS 7. Stems upright...Rough Cinquefoil, POTENTILLA MONSPELIENSIS 8. Flower...
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The World of Plant Life
Book by Clarence J. Hylander; Macmillan, 1939
Subjects: Botany--United States
...pycnantba Willow Acacia " saligna Family Rosaceae Five Finger Potentilla canadensis Rough Cinquefoil " monspeliensis Silvery Cinquefoil " argentea Shrubby Cinquefoil " fruticosa Silverweed Argentina Anserina Marsh Cinquefoil Comarum palustre Meadowsweet...
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Field Book of Western Wild Flowers
Book by J. J. Thornber, Margaret Armstrong; C P Putnams Sons, 1915
Subjects: Wild Flowers--West (U.S.)
...530 . Chylisma , 326 . Chylisma scapoidea var. clavaeformis , 326 . Cicoriaceae , 570 . Cinquefoil , 126 , 234 . Cinquefoil, Arctic, 234 . Cinquefoil, Silky, 234 . Cinquefoil, Shrubby, 234 . Cirsium , 522 . Cistaceae , 304 . Clarkia...
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journal articles on: Cinquefoil  - 15 results

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A Fish Tale: A Small Fish, the ESA, and Our Shared Future
Journal article by Dale D. Goble; Environmental Law, Vol. 40, 2010
Subjects: Endangered Species Act of 1973, Endangered species--Protection and preservation, Marine fishes--Protection and preservation, Wildlife conservation--Management
...intervention. (129) Robbins cinquefoil (Potentilla robbinsiana...populations. (135) Although the cinquefoils population and distribution...risk management after the cinquefoil was delisted. (137) Both...at the hut, monitors the cinquefoil population for human impacts...
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Recovery in a Cynical Time-with Apologies to Eric Arthur Blair
Journal article by Dale D. Goble; Washington Law Review, Vol. 82, 2007
Subjects: Endangered & extinct species, Environmental law, Environmental protection, United States
...are species, typified by the Robbins cinquefoil, that require the implementation of...regulatory mechanisms.33 B. Robbins cinquefoil For some species, existing regulatory...schemes. A good example is Robbins cinquefoil, a longlived, dwarf member of the...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Song of Songs
Journal article by Aakanksha J. Virkar; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 45, 2007
Subjects: Biblical allusions--Usage, Hopkins, George Manley--Works, Song of Songs (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, The Wreck of the Deutschland (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...dearest prized and priced-- Stigma, signal, cinquefoil token For lettering of the lambs fleece...this is the word scored in scarlet, the "cinquefoil token." Crucially, while "cinquefoil" may be read simply as a reference to the...
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Championing This Nature "so Rife with Life": Ecological Consciousness in Walden
Journal article by Debra A. Segura; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2004
Subjects: Biological diversity, Books, Environment, Literary criticism, Nature, Thoreau, Henry David (1817-62), Writers
...this portion of the earths surface, which had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort, and the like, before, sweet...constitutes a blight upon the richer natural "polyculture" of the cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort, piper, etcetera-that he is...
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Ecological Characteristics of Soil Water and Its Relations to Landform and Vegetation in a Small Semiarid Watershed in a Loess Hilly Area of China
Journal article by W. Z. Liu, M. J. Hu, F. M. Li, X. C. Zhang; International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Vol. 12, 2005
...Artemisia giraldii Pamp. Leymus Secalimus Tzvel., Potentilia tanacetifolia Willd. Ex Schlecht., Stemless Cinquefoil, Multicaulic Cinquefoil, Oxytropis bicolor Bunge, Heteropapus altaicus Novopok, and some other species. The Caragana korshnskii...
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magazine articles on: Cinquefoil  - 30 results

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Following the Silver Trail
Magazine article by Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Natural History, Vol. 110, July 2001
Subjects: History, Mining, Roads & highways, Silver, Yukon Territory Canada
...buffaloberry, northern comandra, and shrubby cinquefoil, while the ground is carpeted with...willows. Common shrubs are shrubby cinquefoil, mountain cranberry, western rose...crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows. Common wildflowers...
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Pistil-packing Flies
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 102, April 1993
Subjects: Insects, Plant reproduction, Pollen
...other species in the carrot family; cinquefoil and others in the rose family; and...On some other plants, like flax and cinquefoil, the common fly visitors move from...opposite sex. A search for flies on cinquefoil flowers, for example, is as likely...
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Water Sprites
Magazine article by Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Natural History, Vol. 117, July 2008
Subjects: Research centers, Wildlife conservation
...and the swampy wood, but are not present in the bog. Plants common to both the bog and the fen are shrubby cinquefoil, marsh cinquefoil, meadowsweet, dwarf birch, perfoliate boneset, and hoary willow. Although the upland areas at the Rose...
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High Creek Fen, Colorado
Magazine article by Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Natural History, Vol. 104, June 1995
Subjects: Colorado, Geographic profiles, High Creek Fen, Nature, Parks & recreation areas, Wetlands
...wildflowers are monkshood, blue iris, shooting star, silvery cinquefoil, creeping buttercup, hemlock parsley, bistort, and grass...miles away. One other shrub at High Creek Fen is the shrubby cinquefoil, common to many wetlands in the northern United States and...
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Shingleton Bog, Michigan
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 103, April 1994
Subjects: Ecosystems, Geographic profiles, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan
...and the white beaked rush. The strings, on the other hand, provide habitat for Kalms lobelia, bog rosemary, shrubby cinquefoil, a wild lily, and several flowering plants exceptionally rare for the region. Most of the rarities, including a sedge...
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newspaper articles on: Cinquefoil  - 14 results

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Keeping It Quiet
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), October 4, 2010
...brackish creek, from one set of cattails and spikerush to the next. A kingfisher streaks through the Sitka sedge and silverweed cinquefoil toward the ocean. A great blue heron squawks at takeoff, the whips of its giant wings echoing off the banks. Then, maybe...
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Return to the Wild; Native British Beauties Are Making a Spectacular Comeback, Says Charlie Dimmock
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 19, 2006
...fancy a more glamorous look, some of the bluey-purple vetches would be quite good with silverweed - an intensely silvery cinquefoil with frondy foliage. Ivy-leaved toadflax is stunning, too, with its small, succulent leaves and tiny lavender and yellow...
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Fired-Up Foliage
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 23, 2009
...you could stomp it flat under your boot and not even know it. And if you actually saw it among the tangle of grasses, cinquefoil, lupin and camas, you might figure it for something ordinary such as Queen Annes lace or a wayward carrot. But the diminutive...
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Hot or Cool, Dry or Wet, These Plants Weather the Conditions
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 22, 2007
...adaptable, thriving in either dry or moist soil. Bennetts list of adaptable shrubs for a weather-resilient garden include cinquefoil, ninebark, pearlbush and St. Johns wort. Annuals, she says, are vulnerable to weather extremes because they have only...
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Benefits of Native Plants Makes Them a Natural Choice
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 22, 2006
Subjects: Plants, Plants (Organisms)
...Grass. Perennials: Goatsbeard, Willow Bluestar and Blazing Star or Gayfeather, Cardinal Flower. Shrubs: Potentilla or cinquefoil, American Elderberry, Common Ninebark, Kalm St. Johnswort. - Ask a Master Gardener is written by Anne Gachuhi, Mary...
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encyclopedia articles on: Cinquefoil  - 2 results

 
 
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Cinquefoil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CINQUEFOIL singk foil O.Fr...subarctic regions. Most cinquefoils are perennial; many but...United States. The shrubby cinquefoil ( P. fruticosa ) and the...genus potens =powerful. Cinquefoil is classified in the division...
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Rose
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...are native wildflowers of the United States; in addition to many of those above are Agrimonia ( agrimony ), Potentilla ( cinquefoil ), and Sanguisorba ( burnet ), which are also sometimes cultivated. The True Roses The most popular ornamentals of the...


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