Potentilla fruticosa

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Potentilla fruticosa, Linn. St. shrubby, much branched, mostly 1-4 ft. high, with peculiar shreddy bark: lvs. all cauline, pinnate; lfts. 3-7, small, 6-12 lines long, oblong-linear, acute, silky, with revolute margins: fls. numerous, bright yellow, showy, 8-16 lines broad; receptacle, carpels, and disk all long-hairy; style subbasal, clavate. June Aug. Boggy or dry, more or less calcareous soil, Eu., Asia, N. N. Amer. J.H. III. 31:602. A useful shrub, flowering throughout the summer. Var. Vilmoriniana, Bean, has lvs. silvery white beneath and fls. creamy white. Var. albicans, Rehd. & Wilson, is similar but has yellow fls. China, and cult. Var. dahurica, Lehm., is white-fld. L.B.C. 10:914 (as P. glabra). Var. Veltchii, Bean, white-fld., is P.fruti- cosa x P. dahurica (P. Friedricksenii, Spaeth). B.M. 8637. In nature, P. fruticosa runs into many forms. Subsection B. Nematostylae. Style filiform. Series A. Suferuticulosae. Suffruticose: fl.-bearing sts. terminal on the determinate plant axis. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

1. REDIRECT Dasiphora fruticosa subsp. fruticosa