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- Regional Noxious Weed
- introduced long-lived taprooted perennial in the Rose Family with hairy stems growing from 0.3 to 0.8 metres tall; leaves divided into 5 to 7 hairy leaflets in palmate fashion; pale yellow flowers have 5 heart-shaped petals around a bright yellow centre
- one of over 20 cinquefoils in B.C., most of which are native
- can produce over 1600 seeds per plant
- often confused with the native graceful cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis) which is shorter and has white wooly hair on the undersurface of leaves
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