This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Common Cinquefoil: Five-Finger. Potentilla canadensis.
Rose Family. Apr. - Aug.
Found in dry fields, roadsides, waste places.
Quebec to Georgia, west to Minnesota, Iowa.
Yellow, 5 divisions, growing singly on slender stalks from leaf angles.
Composed of 5 toothed leaflets. Plant stems wiry, prostrate, 6 - 20 inches long.
Cinquefoil.
 
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