Sulphur cinquefoil
Potentilla recta L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 79 cm
- wide
- —
Rosaceae
Also called Sulfur cinquefoil, Tall cinquefoil, Rough-fruited cinquefoil
Formerly Fragaria recta, Pentaphyllum rectum, Tormentilla recta
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EC. & S. Europe to Xinjiang and Iran, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 79 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension yellow; Wikipedia cream, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Hohes Fingerkraut, Aufrechtes Fingerkraut
- root
- POTREC, Azee tsoxíí, Chil di tsoxíí
- Italian
- cinquefoglia diritta
- French
- potentille droite, Potentille droite
- Czech
- mochna přímá
- Norwegian Bokmål
- stormure
- Danish
- Rank potentil
- Dutch
- Rechte ganzerik, rechte ganzerik
- Russian
- Лапчатка прямая
- Finnish
- pystyhanhikki
- Catalan
- Lloraga
- Swedish
- styv fingerört
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Potentilla recta (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.