Potentilla alba

White cinquefoil

Height × spread: 0.25m × 0.25m
Position: Full sun
Hardiness: Very cold to -20C (RHS H6)
Flowers: Spring, Summer

Availability

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About this plant

This plant makes a spreading foliage mat of five fingered leaves, the individual leaflets being long and slender, light-green and silvery. There are silky hairs on the underside of the leaves. It is spring flowering when it produces clusters of small, white flowers. Be careful where you place this attractive plant as it has a vigorous growth habit and can smother other plants. It reaches around 25cm (10in) height and spread.

Flower colour: White
Foliage colour: Green
Variegated: No
Scent: No
Shape: Dome
Height: 0.25m
Spread: 0.25m
Season of interest: Spring, Summer
Flowers in: Spring, Summer
Evergreen: Evergreen

Found in

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