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Carl Farmer |
Very common among heather and in grassland. Flower diameter c 7-12 mm Skye ID: Most of its flowers have 4 petals. Other Potentilla species have 5. Tormentil flowers with 5 petals are frequently found but seem to be random and any given plant will normally have 4 on most flowers. Other features: A low-growing plant. Most leaves have three leaflets plus two large stipules at base looking like leaflets. Basal leaves long-stalked, occasionally with 5 leaflets but most have 3. Alpine Cinquefoil and Creeping Cinquefoil have 5 leaflets as the norm for base leaves. Flower stems do not root. Stem-leaves almost unstalked, which is why the stipules look like part of the leaf. This does not occur with the other two species. |
