Potentilla norvegicaL.

rough cinquefoil

WFO wfo-0000988932 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Potentilla norvegica, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. a Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-06 / obs. 199106910
Potentilla norvegica, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. b Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197812832
Potentilla norvegica, photographed by Виктория Билоус
fig. c Виктория Билоус, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191538497
Potentilla norvegica, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. d Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194421919
Potentilla norvegica, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. e Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191457463
Potentilla norvegica, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. f Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191504686
Potentilla norvegica, photographed by Alexander Agafonov
fig. g Alexander Agafonov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165142806
Potentilla norvegica, photographed by Екатерина Гущина
fig. h Екатерина Гущина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190610489

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,074 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 1,074 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 42 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Fragaria monspeliensis (L.) Crantz
  • Fragaria norvegica (L.) Crantz
  • Fragaria parviflora Lam.
  • Pentaphyllum norvegicum (L.) Gaertn.
  • Potentilla dichotoma Moench
  • Potentilla diffusa Willd.
  • Potentilla flexuosa Raf.
  • Potentilla fragariifolia Hoppe ex Lehm.
  • Potentilla geminiflora Schrank
  • Potentilla grossa Douglas ex Hook.
  • Potentilla gusuleacii Hormuz.
  • Potentilla gusuleacii f. prostrata Hormuz.
  • Potentilla gusuleacii f. quinata Hormuz.
  • Potentilla gusuleacii f. ternata Hormuz.
  • Potentilla hirsuta Michx.
  • Potentilla labradorica Lehm.
  • Potentilla monspeliensis L.
  • Potentilla monspeliensis var. labradorica (Lehm.) Fernald
  • Potentilla monspeliensis var. norvegica (L.) Farw.
  • Potentilla morisonii DC.
  • Potentilla norvegica f. degenerata (Lehm.) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla norvegica f. degenerata Lehm.
  • Potentilla norvegica f. labradorica (Lehm.) Th.Wolf
  • Potentilla norvegica f. parvula Domin

and 18 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.