Potentina reptans, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 45

54. P. reptans L. , Sp. Pl. 499 (1753).

Perennial; stock relatively slender with a persistent rosette of leaves; flowering stems 30- 100 cm, procumbent, rooting at the nodes, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves digitate; leaflets 5(-7), 5-70 x 3-25 mm, obovate or oblong-obovate, dentate or serrate-dentate. Flowers 5-merous, all solitary, axillary. Sepals and epicalyx-segments variable. Petals (7-)8-12 mm, up to twice as long as sepals. Stamens c. 20. Carpels 60-120. Style conical at base, enlarged at apex. 2« = 28. Europe except the extreme north. All except Fa Is Sb.