Common name:
Tormentil
Family:
Scientific name:
Potentilla erecta
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK
Height:
Up to 15 cm
Habitat:
Grassland, moorland, heaths
Flowers:
Up to 11 mm in diameter, usually with four yellow petals (sometimes five or six), four sepals and four narrower epicalyx bracts. Attached by long, hairy stalks from the leaf nodes, on stems which are ascending or creeping, but do not take root from the nodes
Leaves:
Stalkless, shiny green and hairless above, downy below, divided into three wedge-shaped leaflets, which have a few large teeth towards the tip, while at the base are a pair of similar-shaped stipules, giving the appearance of five leaflets
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
