Potentilla supina L.

Prostrate cinquefoil (en), Potentille étalée (fr), Potentille couchée (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Potentilla

Characteristics

Herbs annual or biennial. Roots slender, with sparse lateral rootlets. Flowering stems spreading, ascending, or erect, dichotomously branched, 20–50 cm tall, together with petioles pilose or glabrescent. Radical leaves 4–15 cm including petiole; stipules brown, membranous, abaxially pilose or glabrescent; leaf blade 3-foliolate or pinnate with 2–5 pairs of leaflets; leaflets alternate or opposite, sessile, or terminal leaflet shortly petiolulate or subsessile, both surfaces green, oblong or obovate-oblong, 1–2.5 × 0.5–1.5 cm, both surfaces pilose or glabrescent, base cuneate or broadly so, often decurrent and adnate to rachis in apical 1 or 2 pairs of leaflets, margin obtusely serrate, incised serrate, or 2-or 3-parted, apex obtuse or acute; cauline leaves resembling radical ones but pairs of leaflets fewer higher up stem; stipules green, herbaceous, margin entire, serrate, or parted. Inflorescence terminal, corymbose-cymose, with axillary flowers on lower part of flowering stem. Flowers 6–8 mm in diam.; pedicel 0.8–1.5 cm, densely pubescent. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acute; epicalyx segments oblong-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, nearly equaling or slightly longer than sepals, apex acute. Petals yellow, obovate, slightly shorter than sepals, apex emarginate. Style subterminal, base thickened, papillate; stigma dilated. Achenes cylindric, rugose, apex acute. Fl. and fr. Mar–Oct.
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Spreading annual or biennial herb, branches up to 200 mm long. Leaves 3-foliolate or pinnate with 2-5 pairs of leaflets, pilose or glabrescent, margin obtusely serrate. Flowers in a terminal cyme and axillary in lower parts of stem, petals shorter than sepals, yellow, notched. Achenes wrinkled, apex acute.
Annual or short-lived perennial herb. Stems spreading; flowering stems up to 400 mm high. Leaves compound; blade imparipinnate; leaflets oblong or obovate, incise-dentate. Flowers: petals 2.5-3.0 mm long, shorter than sepals; corolla yellow; Oct.-Jun.
Annual or short-lived perennial herb. Flowering stems up to 400 mm tall. Leaflets oblong or obovate, incise-dentate. Petals 2.5-3.0 mm, shorter than sepals. Flowers yellow.
A herb. It grows for one or two years. The flowering stems can be 20-50 cm tall. The leaves are hairy. The flowers are yellow.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread barochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.4
Root system fibrous-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It grows in the subtropics. It grows on wet places on mountain slopes and sandy riverbanks and salty deserts between 100-2,000 m above sea level in China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Dampish waste ground and ditches, 200-2500 metres in Turkey.
Light 6-9
Soil humidity 4-8
Soil texture 3-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

Usage

The young leaves are used as a vegetable. The ripe fruit are eaten.
Uses food medicinal
Edible fruits leaves
Therapeutic use Astringent (unspecified), Fever (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Potentilla supina habit picture by Юрий Басов (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Potentilla supina leaf picture by Tóth Tünde (cc-by-sa)
Potentilla supina leaf picture by Igor Igor (cc-by-sa)
Potentilla supina leaf picture by michel vincent (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Potentilla supina flower picture by Udo Lange (cc-by-sa)
Potentilla supina flower picture by Nele Pele (cc-by-sa)
Potentilla supina flower picture by Nele Pele (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Potentilla supina fruit picture by Christian Sapelza (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Potentilla supina world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Anguilla, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Belarus, Bhutan, Switzerland, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Algeria, Estonia, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea (Republic of), Lebanon, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Morocco, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Mongolia, Namibia, Netherlands, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Sudan, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, and South Africa

Conservation status

Potentilla supina threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:729071-1
WFO ID wfo-0000991597
COL ID 4M65H
BDTFX ID 52911
INPN ID 115669
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Argentina supina Potentilla gariepensis Potentilla gariepensis Potentilla garipensis Tridophyllum supinum Potentilla fauriei Potentilla denticulata Potentilla obovata Fragaria supina Potentilla cicutariifolia Potentilla prostrata Potentilla limosa Chamaephyton supinum Comarum flavum Comarum supinum Potentilla supina var. supina Potentilla supina var. paradoxa Potentilla supina var. egibbosa Potentilla supina subsp. supina Potentilla supina var. elatior Potentilla supina

Lower taxons

Potentilla supina var. ternata Potentilla supina subsp. costata Potentilla supina subsp. aegyptiaca Potentilla supina subsp. paradoxa Potentilla supina subsp. caspica