Thread: Plant ID please
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Old 21-09-2007, 10:15 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Des Higgins Des Higgins is offline
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Default Plant ID please

On Sep 20, 7:58 pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote:
In message , "David
(Normandy)" writesWe'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.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley


Agreed it is a potentilla.

Des