Potentilla
Potentilla spp.
Special Features
Typically have compound leaves with several small leaflets and produce five-petaled saucer-shaped flowers in yellow, white, pink, orange, or red. Flowers are often borne in clusters.
Plant Specifications
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Growing Potentilla on Martha's Vineyard
Potentilla, the cinquefoils, offer Martha's Vineyard's landscape designers a dependable range of sun-loving perennials suited to the lean, well-drained, sandy soils and full-sun exposures of the island's coastal and near-coastal garden environments. The herbaceous perennial species, including Potentilla atrosanguinea cultivars, produce strawberry-like flowers in red, orange, and yellow from late spring through midsummer in cheerful combinations that suit the island's casual coastal garden aesthetic well. They are exceptionally tolerant of dry, infertile conditions and handle the salt-influenced air and persistent winds of ocean-facing properties in Edgartown and Vineyard Haven without significant decline.
Deer resistance is generally reliable. Estate Care professionals use perennial Potentilla in the front-of-border and rock garden positions of island landscape programs where drought tolerance, lean-soil adaptability, and reliable seasonal color are all required with minimal cultural input.
