"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
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In message , "David (Normandy)"
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We've lost the plant label to this flower (probably nicked by our black
Labrador).

The plant is unusual because it's flowers never appear above the crown of
foliage, they are always buried unseen within the plant. Is this normal?
Not complaining though because the leaves are quite attractive anyway.

Photos at:

http://www.avisoft.co.uk/photos/Hpim5804a.jpg

http://www.avisoft.co.uk/photos/Hpim5807a.jpg

David.

It looks like a Potentilla. (OK, it also looks like a Fragaria, but I
think you would have noticed the fruits.) The usual red-flowered (do the
flowers open red?) herbaceous Potentilla in cultivation is Potentilla
nepalensis, but this doesn't appear to be that.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

The flowers are a brilliant blood red. A bud is visible in the second photo.
Though the plant is more leaves than flowers, and most of the flowers that
have appeared are lost amongst the foliage - they don't seem to be on tall
stalks.

David.