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Family: Rosaceae
Potentilla anserina

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 495 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Silverweed.

Description:
Herb with creeping and rooting branches to 80 cm long from a short stock; leaves imparipinnate, with numerous oblong serrate 10-40 mm long leaflets, green above or silvery-villous on both faces.

Peduncles usually 2-12 cm long; petals 7-10 mm long, yellow; styles lateral, filiform, caducous.

Fruits surrounded by me persistent calyx.

image of FSA1_Potentilla_ans.jpg Potentilla anserina
Image source: fig 242b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  It may possibly occur only as an occasional escape and not be truly naturalised.

  N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Dec. — Jan.


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