Scientific name: Potentilla erecta (L.) Raeusch.
Common name: Tormentil
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 45 cm high.
Stems: Erect to trailing, not rooting at nodes.
Leaves: Both in a basal rosette and stem leaves; leaves ternate or palmately 5-lobed, leaflets oval and deeply toothed near the tip; with 2 leafy and deeply lobed stipules; upper leaves stalkless.
Flowers: Yellow, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 6-10 mm across, numerous in loose and leafy cymes; calyx of 4 sepals, fused, calyx-tube short; petals 4, free; stamens 15-20; carpels 4-12; ovary superior; with hypanthium flat- or saucer-shaped.
Fruits: A head of achenes on a non-swollen convex receptacle.
Habitat: Heaths, bogs, pastures, meadows, limestone pavement.Distribution: Abundant throughout.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No