Panic grasses (Panicum spp,), violets, composites and
cinquefoil were the most common herbaceous forages in the clearcut plots.
& Graebn.; Strawberry Weed, Rough
Cinquefoil, Norwegian
Cinquefoil; Sedge meadow; Rare; C = 0; BSUH 14841.
Radnorshire - rock
cinquefoil, rock stonecrop, western gorse, wood bitter vetch.
Potentilla recta L.; Sulphur Five-fingers or
Cinquefoil; Fields and roadside; Infrequent; (*); C = 0; BSUH 12601.
Potentilla simplex Michx.: Common
cinquefoil; May; low, wet woods; infrequent; USIH 935.
Potentilla simplex Michx.: Old Field Five-fingers or Common
Cinquefoil; infrequent; fields; BSUH 10098, 10330.
To the reverse, an asymmetrical composition of solidly beaded trefoil, openwork quatrefoil and
cinquefoil, with delicate star-like flowers on linear stems, within multiple zigzag and linear borders.
The knotting was distinctive enough for the observation of particular shapes like Hopf links, trefoil knots,
cinquefoil knots and figure-8 knots.
You may see the rare Hill's thistle, prairie
cinquefoil, pale purple coneflowers and prairie roses as well as dickcissels, grasshopper sparrow, Henslow sparrow and meadow lark, monarchs, wood nymphs and Baltimore checkerspot butterflies.
Annora Brown, Shrubby
Cinquefoil, 1960, watercolour and casein, Glenbow Museum, 60.31.9
Stemless
Cinquefoil Oxytropis myriophylla (Pall.) DC.
Deadnettle Lapsana communis Nipplewort Lithospermum arvense Corn cromwell Neslia paniculata Ball mustard Persicaria lapathifolia Pale persicaria Poa annua Annual poa Poa pratensis/trivialis Meadow grass Poaceae True grasses Polygonum aviculare Knotgrass Potentilla norvegica Norwegian
cinquefoil Potentilla recta Rough-fruited
cinquefoil Raphanus raphanistrum Wild radish Rhinanthus sp.
holosericea (hoary nettle), Stachys rigida (hedge-nettle), Equisetum laevigatum (horse-tail), Achillea millefolium (yarrow) and, on the drier edges, Rumex californicus (willow dock), Potentilla species (
cinquefoil), Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon), Luzula comosa (hairy wood-rush), and other grasses and sedges.
Above all I recall the smells and colours of a tapestry of herbs which I had never encountered before: marsh St John's-wort in a peaty ditch, marsh
cinquefoil and bogbean in pools, and purple loosestrife and hemp agrimony in former peat cuttings, a sign to take care when stepping on what looked like solid ground.
