| Description | Monarchs Velvet Potentilla (Potentilla thurberi) is mounded plant with scarlet red flowers. |
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| Pronunciation | (poh-ten-TILL-uh)(THUR-ber-eye) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 5-9 |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny |
| Moisture | average, medium moist |
| Soil & Site | average, medium moist, well drained |
| Flowers | 5 petal, scarlet red, darken at the base |
| Leaves | palmate compound leaves, toothed leaflets, strawberry-like foliage |
| Dimensions | 1-1.5 by 1-1.5 plus feet, mounded, clump forming |
| Propagation | reported to come fairly true from seeds, division |
| Native Site | Native to coniferous forests, stream banks and moist meadows in Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico (#144) |
| Cultivar Origin | thurberi commemorates an American botanist who specialised in grasses, Dr. George Thurber (1821-1890))(#145) |
| Misc Facts | Potentilla is derived from Latin potens (power, might, ability) with reference to medicinal virtues of some specie. AKA: Monarchs Velvet Cinquefoil, Scarlet cinquefoil |
| Notes & Reference | #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site, #145-Plant Lives (Sue Eland) web site |
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