Scientific name: Potentilla anserina L.
Common name: Silverweed
Description
Habit: A trailing perennial.
Stems: Slender, red, creeping and rooting at nodes, to 25 cm long.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked, with leafy stipules, with silky hairs, most hairy and silvery on the underside; pinnate with 7-12 pairs of toothed, oval leaflets, alternating large and small.
Flowers: Yellow, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 20-25 mm across, solitary in leaf axils on long flower stalks; calyx of 5 sepals, fused, calyx-tube short; petals 5, free; stamens numerous; carpels numerous, ovary superior; with hypanthium flat- or saucer-shaped.
Fruits: A head of achenes on a non-swollen convex receptacle.
Habitat: Roadsides, sand-dunes, cultivated fields, waste ground, marshes, periodically flooded marshland.Distribution: Abundant throughout.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No