Potentilla sterilis   Barren Strawberry

 

 

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This is not an easy plant to see even though it is one of the few which can be in flower in late February or March. The flowers are quite small usually about 1 cm in diameter, rarely much more. The English name gives away the diagnostic feature it has trefoil leaves like a strawberry although they are a duller green and smaller and of course it isn't a member of the strawberry family..

Cheshire roadside bank, 19th March 2001

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Added November 23rd 2004