This cinquefoil has trailing stolons a bit like P. reptans (Creeping Cinquefoil) but usually has four petals like the smaller flowered P. erecta (Tormentil). I associate ordinary Tormentil with open acidish grassland but Trailing Tormentil is usually on wasteland, banks and poor, bare grassland.
Gaitbarrows 12th June 2004
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