Flower Notes:
Yellow (Yellow 5-petaled flowers (1" dia.) in summer; Most showy in early summer, but continuing to flower up to frost)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Bright to gray-green foliage in summer); Yellow (Yellow-brown fall foliage; not ornamentally important); Leaves have 3-7 leaflets around 1/2 to 1" long
Stem Notes:
Brown (Shiny, slender, wispy, exfoliating with age)
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Persistent achene; not ornamentally important)
Soil Notes:
Widely adapted to different soils, including poor, dry soils
Range:
North America and Eurasia
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are compound pinnate with 3-7 leaflets (often 5, hence Cinquefoil, from quinque (L), five, and folium (L), leaf), each leaflet 0.5-1" long and oblong-lanceolate.