| Potentilla canadensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Potentilla |
| Species: | P. canadensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Potentilla canadensis L.
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Potentilla canadensis, the dwarf cinquefoil, is a species of cinquefoil (genus Potentilla) native to North America.[1]
The Iroquois take a pounded infusion of the roots as an antidiarrheal.[2] The Natchez give the plant as a drug for those believed to be bewitched.[3]
Along with Potentilla simplex, the plant is an indicator of impoverished soil[4] as well as the host species for the cinquefoil bud gall wasp Diastrophus potentillae.[5]
- ^ "USDA Plants Database".
- ^ Herrick, James William (1977). Iroquois Medical Botany (PhD thesis). Albany: State University of New York. p. 353.
- ^ Swanton, John R (1928). Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians (Report). SI-BAE Annual Report. Vol. 42. p. 667.
- ^ Niering, William A.; Olmstead, Nancy C. (1985) [1979]. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Eastern Region. Knopf. p. 753. ISBN 0-394-50432-1.
- ^ "Diastrophus potentillae". Gallformers. gallformers.org. Retrieved 8 March 2023.