Potentilla anserina

Silver weed cinquefoil

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Silver weed cinquefoil is a California native perennial found in coastal and montane habitats. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces yellow flowers approximately 2 to 3 centimeters wide with delicate petals. Growing from creeping stolons with tufted stems, it forms dense low-growing mats up to 30 centimeters tall. Its pinnate leaves have 5 to 10 leaflets per side, each intricately toothed and densely covered in silvery-white hairs, giving the plant a distinctive silvery appearance. The small fruits are dark red-brown and approximately 2 millimeters long, developing after the bright yellow flowers fade.

California counties: San Bernardino, Mendocino, Monterey, Alameda, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Modoc, San Mateo, Mono, Sierra, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, San Francisco, Del Norte, Tuolumne, Santa Cruz, Solano

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.