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cinquefoil

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cinquefoil

Any of a group of plants that usually have five-lobed leaves and brightly coloured flowers. They are widespread in northern temperate regions. (Genus Potentilla, family Rosaceae.)

Field cinquefoil ( Potentilla canadensis) is a low-growing perennial with yellow flowers native to eastern North America in dry grasslands and barrens.



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This was my curious labor all summer -- to make this portion of the earth's surface, which had yielded only cinquefoil, blackberries, johnswort, and the like, before, sweet wild fruits and pleasant flowers, produce instead this pulse.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
--my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of smallage, and cinquefoil, and wolf's bane"
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