Potentilla recta Seeds | Sulphur Cinquefoil
LATIN NAME: Potentilla recta
COMMON NAME: Sulphur Cinquefoil
Plant Profile
Sulphur Cinquefoil (Potentilla recta) is a perennial in the rose family. Sulphur cinquefoil is yellow one of poor ground, with five-fingered leaves and long, careless bloom. Plant is a generous, easy presence of wild patch and dry border. It is a plant of open, sunny, well-drained ground. Its flowers draw a steady traffic of bees and other beneficial insects. Gardeners value it precisely for this blend of qualities.
Science & Biotechnology
The species features in the wider study of the rose family, and its traits make it a useful subject for work on germination biology, cultivation and ornamental selection. Gardeners benefit directly from its long cultivation: what the plant will do in a garden is well understood.
Uses & Benefits
In the garden, Sulphur Cinquefoil earns its place in borders, containers and mixed plantings, and it also rewards growers who raise plants for cutting, drying or kitchen use. Sulphur cinquefoil is a fine, easy plant of dry bank and wild patch. Loose clusters of small, pale-yellow flowers open through long summer, and five-fingered leaves hold plant neat through the season. Sulphur cinquefoil is one of easy yellow perennials of poor ground, and loose clusters of pale-yellow flowers open through long summer. Getting it going is easy; keeping it going is easier still.
Cinquefoils are astringent folk herbs of Europe for digestion and sore gums, and potentilla tormentil root remains official in European herbals; the garden types are tough, long-blooming perennials.
Growing from Seed
Sow fresh seed of Sulphur Cinquefoil under ordinary good conditions. Surface-sow onto a light, well-drained compost, dust over a thin covering, and keep evenly moist and sunny until the seedlings show. Transplant the sturdiest seedlings to their permanent spots and let them develop without disturbance.
Our Take
It forms a perennial, which makes spacing and siting straightforward. Sulphur Cinquefoil is the kind of plant that rewards a permanent spot. In a sunny, freely drained position it needs little looking after.
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