Ministry of Agriculture and Lands

• Regional Noxious Weed

• introduced long-lived taprooted perennial in the Rose Family with hairy stems growing from 0.3 to 0.8 metres tall; leaves divided into 5 to 7 hairy leaflets in palmate fashion; pale yellow flowers have 5 heart-shaped petals around a bright yellow centre

• one of over 20 cinquefoils in B.C., most of which are native

• can produce over 1600 seeds per plant

• often confused with the native graceful cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis) which is shorter and has white wooly hair on the undersurface of leaves

Photo courtesy BC Ministry of Forests