Potentilla

Potentilla
Potentilla reptans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Subfamily:	Rosoideae
Tribe:	Potentilleae
Subtribe:	Potentillinae
Genus:	Potentilla L.
Type species
Potentilla reptans L.
Species
Over 500
Synonyms
List Pentaphylloides Duhamel Quinquefolium Ség. Callionia Greene Chamaephyton Fourr. Chionice Bunge ex Ledeb. Coelas Dulac Comarella Rydb. Commarum Schrank Duchesnea Sm. Dynamidium Fourr. Fraga Lapeyr. Fragariastrum Heist. ex Fabr. Fragariastrum (Ser.) Schur Horkelia Cham. & Schltdl. Horkeliella (Rydb.) Rydb. Hypargyrium Fourr. Ivesia Torr. & A.Gray Jussiea L. ex Sm. Lehmannia Tratt. Pentaphyllum Hill Pentaphyllum Gaertn. Potentillopsis Opiz Purpusia Brandegee Stellariopsis (Baill.) Rydb. Tormentilla L. Trichothalamus Spreng. Tridophyllum Neck. ex Greene Tylosperma Botsch.

Potentilla /ˌpoʊtənˈtɪlə/^[1] is a genus containing over 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae.

Potentillas may also be called cinquefoils in English, but they have also been called five fingers and silverweeds. Some species are called tormentils, though this is often used specifically for common tormentil (P. erecta). Others are referred to as barren strawberries, which may also refer to P. sterilis in particular, or to the closely related Waldsteinia fragarioides. Several other cinquefoils formerly included here are now separated in distinct genera – notably the popular garden shrub P. fruticosa, now Dasiphora fruticosa.

Potentillas are generally found throughout the northern continents of the world (holarctic), though some occur in montane biomes of the New Guinea Highlands.