Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Potentilla recta
Common name
Sulphur cinquefoil
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Pastures, roadsides, and weedy areas. Tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and Western Slopes.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 0.7 m high. Stems green or reddish, sparsely covered with short and long hairs. Flowering stems densely hairy. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 5–12 cm long, compound, with 5–7 leaflets each 1.5–8 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, upper surface almost hairless, lower surface sparsely hairy with white spreading hairs, margins toothed. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 6–12 mm long, in many-flowered open clusters. Flowers Spring to summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Potentilla~recta (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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