VC VR N I Potentilla and Fragaria Very Common Very Rare Native Introduced Shrubby Cinquefoil – Potentilla fruticosa NN Flower yellow with 5 petals A small shrub with peeling bark Leaves toothed and divided into 3 or 5 leaflets Silverweed – Potentilla anserina N

Flower yellow with 5 petals Leaves pinnate and silvery in appearance

Stems red

Tormentil - Potentilla erecta N

Upper leaves Flower yellow with 4 stalkless petals Leaves heavily toothed divided into 5 leaflets 3-4 teeth on side of leaves

Trailing Tormentil - Potentilla anglica N

Flowers Leaves heavily yellow with 4 toothed, usually Stems or 5 petals divided into 3 trailing leaflets and 4-6 teeth on rooting at Upper leaves on side of leaves the tips short stalks

Creeping Cinquefoil- Potentilla reptans N

Flowers yellow with Leaves on 5 petals long stalks with red Leaves heavily tipped teeth toothed and divided Stems rooting into 5 leaflets at nodes Marsh Cinquefoil – Comarum palustre N

Flower red with Leaves toothed, petals shorter than divided into 3 or sepals 5 leaflets

Barren Strawberry – Potentilla sterilis N

Flower white Middle with yellow Leaves heavily tooth of centre, and 5 toothed, usually leaflet petals which divided into 3 shorter than have large leaflets surrounding spaces teeth between them

Wild Strawberry - Fragaria vesca N

Flowers white Middle tooth with yellow of leaflet centre and 5 longer or petals which Leaves heavily equal to have little or toothed and divided surrounding no spacing into 3 leaflets teeth

Hybridisation

Hybridisation can sometimes occur between Potentilla erecta, Potentilla anglica and Potentilla reptans which can make identification to species level difficult

Photos: Zoe Devlin and Oisín Duffy