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Sulfur or Rough-Fruited Cinquefoil, Potentilla recta Erect plant, to 2 ft tall. Leaves with 5 to 7 leaflets arranged like fingers (palmate). Leaflets strongly toothed and strongly veined. Flowers pale yellow, with 5 heart-shaped petals. Blooms in summer. Alien plant of dry fields and roadsides, considered a noxious weed in some states. Occaional in Wildwood, mostly in the South Meadow area. The strongly toothed palmate leaves and 5-petaled yellow flowers mark this as a cinquefoil. The native common cinquefoil (P. simplex) is a weak, sprawling plant with bright yellow flowers. Rough or Norwegian cinquefoil (P. norvegica) has only three leaflets. |
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