Rose Family [Rosaceae] |
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30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
A deciduous shrub growing to 1m high (or low as the case may be here). The flowers are in singles to groups of many. |
30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves are in either 5's to 7's, but as low as in 3's or as high as in 9's. Here there are 6 flowers in a group, 4 of them spent having lost their petals. |
30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
With 5 yellow and rounded petals. The leaves are hairy making them appear greyish-green. |
30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The 5 outer sepals beneath the flower are wider than the 5 inner sepals. |
30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The petals are between 6 to 16mm long. Flowers have many orange anthers. Functionally, the flowers are dioecious, although they may appear to have both sexes in the same flower, one or those sexes will be infertile, with different sexes being infertile for each flower, male, or female. |
30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
This is a tight cluster of flowers, many spent with their petals having dropped off. |
30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The hairy sepals ans stems. |
30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The brown stems have bark which is stringy and flakes off. |
30th Aug 2010, 1m E of Nob End, MB&B canal, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves are pinnate, meaning they are in opposite pairs apart from the terminal leaf. The leaflet are toothlessbut do have hairs making them appear hoary-green. |
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Not to be semantically confused with : Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : See text
Taxonomists have recently invented a brand new Genus for this flower, Dasiphora, its name being changed to Dasiphora fruticosa, but your Author has not put this under its now correct name because it is a lot of work creating a brand new genus name on my website without entering that name in all the many pages it must then go, and there is only this one flower which will occupy the new Dasiphora genus... And, who knows, in another 10 years they might have changed their minds again... Readers will have to get used to it's common name,
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Potentilla | fruticosa | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Rosaceae |
Potentilla (Potentilla) |
Rose Family [Rosaceae] |