Potentilla occurs as genus of about D coinage of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the rose family Rosaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. Most common list include cinquefoil, tormentil, & barren strawberry.

Numerous of a coinage stand leaves divided into 5 leaflets intended palmately (prefer the fingers of a hand), whence the title cinquefoil (French, cinque feuilles, "five leaves"), though a select few mintage (e.g. P. sterilis) use at times good trey leaflets, & others (e.g. P. anserina) as much as Fifteen or even extra leaflets intended pinnately. A leaves of a bit of cinquefoils come eaten per larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Emperor Moth.

Recent genetic research has resulted in the total of changes to the circumscription of Potentilla (Eriksson et al., 2003).

A genera Duchesnea, Horkelia, & Ivesia, antecedently altogether take to become distinct, keep around been shown to be members of Potentilla.

On a other hand, the fruticulose plant antecedently involved in that genus when Potentilla fruticosa, doesn't to belong to Potentilla the least bit, & is okay, treated in the genus Dasiphora as Dasiphora fruticosa.

Them mintage erstwhile treated when Potentilla palustris & Potentilla salesowianum come today separated into a genus Comarum, while Potentilla tridentata is transferred to Sibbaldiopsis as Sibbaldiopsis tridentata, and Potentilla arguta is likewise okay, separated into a genus Drymocallis as Drymocallis arguta.

A silverweeds are also seperable into a freshly genus Argentina, though these are nigher to the average coinage of Potentilla, & this separation is less swell supported.

Potentilla is too related the genera Geum and Dryas, and besides to the strawberries in the genus Fragaria; Potentilla differs from the strawberries in having dry, inedible fruit (hence the name "barren strawberry" for some species).

A select few coinage come grown when garden plants.

Species
Just about D, including:
Potentilla alba White Cinquefoil
Potentilla alchemilloides Alchemilla-leaved Cinquefoil
Potentilla anglica Trailing Tormentil
Potentilla anserina Silverweed
Potentilla argentea Hoary Cinquefoil
Potentilla canadensis Canadian Cinquefoil
Potentilla cinerea Grey Cinquefoil
Potentilla crantzii Alpine Cinquefoil
Potentilla erecta Common tormentil
Potentilla indica Mock Strawberry
Potentilla micrantha Pink Barren strawberry
Potentilla norvegica Norwegian Cinquefoil
Potentilla palustris Marsh Cinquefoil
Potentilla pensylvanica Pennsylvania Cinquefoil
Potentilla recta Sulphur Cinquefoil
Potentilla reptans Creeping tormentil
Potentilla rupestris Rock Cinquefoil
Potentilla simplex Oldfield Cinquefoil
Potentilla sterilis Barren Strawberry
Potentilla tabernaemontani Spring Cinquefoil