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Potentilla argentea

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Authors: L.  

Botanical Description

sometimes forming small mats, the prostrate to ascending flowering stems 10-30cm in length. Leaves digitate composed of cuneate-obovate, toothed leaflets l-3cm long, deep green above, densely white downy beneath. Flowers 9-12mm across, yellow, in loose panicles, mid to late summer. Alps, Apennines and Pyrenees, also northern Europe including the British Isles, in open woods and slopes, often in short grassland.