Slender Cinquefoil
Potentilla gracilis
Slender cinquefoil is a graceful western meadow perennial with palmate leaves and airy sprays of bright yellow flowers all summer, an easy, drought-tolerant pollinator plant for sunny borders and prairies. The fruit is a tiny, dry achene rather than a fleshy berry — technically edible, but not a real food source.
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- June, July
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MI, MN, MT, ND, NM, NV, OR, SD, UT, WA, WI, WY
Related native plants
More Potentilla species
- Common Cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex)
- Tall Cinquefoil (Potentilla arguta)
- Scarlet Cinquefoil (Potentilla thurberi)