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Potentilla

noun
1.
Chiefly perennial northern hemisphere herbs and shrubs: cinquefoil.  Synonym: genus Potentilla.



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"Potentilla" Quotes from Famous Books



... repressed, bursts forth, but in no profuse luxuriance. A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen Empetrum nigrum slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... turf covers the Downs with a velvet mantle, forming the most exhilarating of all earthly surfaces upon which to walk and the most restful on which to stretch the wearied body. Most delightful also are the miniature flowers which gem and embroider the velvet; gold of potentilla, blue of gentian, pink and white of milkwort, purple of the scabious and clustered bell-flower; the whole robe scented with the fragrance of sweet thyme. Several unfamiliar species of orchis may be found and also the rare and beautiful rampion, "The Pride of Sussex." The hills are ...
— Seaward Sussex - The South Downs from End to End • Edric Holmes



Words linked to "Potentilla" :   five-finger, Potentilla anserina, rosid dicot genus, rose family, Rosaceae, cinquefoil, genus Potentilla, family Rosaceae



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