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Common cinquefoil [Potentilla simplex]

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Common Name: Common cinquefoil
Scientic Name: Potentilla simplex
Colors: Yellow
Months Appearing: June

Forms runners on the ground. 

Flowers and leaves on different stems. Flowers 1/2 inch.

Leaflets 5, palmately compound. Leaflets are broader toward their tip and toothed.

Field and drywoods.

6/2, Dry pathside. second photo, 6/7, at Bundy Hill, Chippewa Watershed Authority, Isabella County, Michigan.