cinquefoil

For Potentilla, or cinquefoil, it’s a more industrial approach.

He points to clumps of bunchgrass interspersed with geraniums, cinquefoils, lichen, and patches of bare soil.

Vollmer’s research on the dwarf mountain cinquefoil seeks to provide evidence of the plant cloning itself by producing seeds without fertilization, or of genetic diversity and its evolution.

Peak season finds meadows brimming with avalanche lilies, pink heather, western pasqueflowers, lupine, scarlet paintbrush and bright yellow cinquefoil, all with a backdrop of cascading waterfalls and sparkling glaciers.

And when I explained that she had found it while digging for cinquefoil root—which we used on open sores—he seemed quite interested.