White cinquefoil care and planting and care in the open field

Cinquefoil is a perennial, less often an annual plant from the Pink family. The genus Potentilla is the most numerous in terms of the number of species - there are about 325 of them, including herbaceous, semi-shrub and shrub species. And each of the species can decorate a corner of the garden or become the centerpiece of a landscape composition, especially since it is easy to take care of them.

Cinquefoil is a perennial, less often an annual plant from the Pink family. The genus Potentilla is the most numerous in terms of the number of species - there are about 325 of them, including herbaceous, semi-shrub and shrub species. And each of the species can decorate a corner of the garden or become the centerpiece of a landscape composition, especially since it is easy to take care of them.

Botanical description

Cinquefoil is rightfully considered an unpretentious and frost-resistant plant, as it tolerates a cold snap to -30 ° C. In the wild, it is distributed in northern latitudes with a temperate climate - the range covers Europe, North America and some Asian countries.

The flowers of the plant consist of five petals of different colors: white, yellow, pink, orange and different shades of red. Leaves are palmate-split, clawed or pinnate. The color of the leaves depends on the composition of the soil at the place of growth and varies from light silver to dark green.

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People call cinquefoil cinquefoil, it also has another name - Kuril tea. The leaves and roots of the plant are distinguished by a high content of vitamins, trace elements, tannin and tannins, therefore they are used as raw materials for brewing tea, as well as for the preparation of various medicines. Medicines from Potentilla have anti-inflammatory, wound healing and analgesic properties. They are used even for thyroid dysfunction caused by iodine deficiency in the body.

Gardeners fell in love with Kuril tea for its high decorative effect - almost all types and varieties are distinguished by long flowering up to 2-4 months. And even a beginner in gardening can take care of cinquefoil.

Species diversity

Potentilla types are conventionally divided into three groups, differing in flower color:

• yellow-flowered;
• white-flowered;
• red-flowered (this includes species with pink, orange and red petals).

Each group has a huge number of varieties. Among the whole variety of shrub varieties, it is worth highlighting several of the most popular:

• Goldfinger.

One of the brightest representatives of the yellow-flowered group is the Goldfinger Potentilla. The shoots of the shrub grow up to 1.2 m, the crown of an adult bush reaches 1.5 m in diameter, and the dark yellow flowers are 4-5 cm. The plant blooms from June until frost, and is highly resistant to diseases and pests. In landscape design, Goldfinger shrub cinquefoil is used as decorative hedges and borders, and looks great as a specimen plant.

• Goldstar.

From yellow-flowered plants, the cinquefoil shrub Goldstar is distinguished. A small shrub with a height of 0.6-0.7 m in June is covered with large golden-yellow flowers (up to 5 cm in diameter). Abundant flowering continues until the first frost.

• Abbotswood.

Shrub cinquefoil Abbotswood belongs to the group of white-flowered species. This is a short shrub up to 1-1.2 m high. The size of white flowers is small and is 2.0-2.5 cm in diameter, but a large number of simultaneously opened petals and long flowering from June to September make this variety the best of the group.

• Red Ice.

From the representatives of the third group, the Red Ice shrub cinquefoil stands out. The plant blooms for almost three months, while the color of the petals changes throughout the season: at the beginning of summer, orange-red flowers bloom, in the middle of the season they turn yellow-orange, and with cold snaps they acquire a rich red color. The shrub, in comparison with the above-mentioned varieties, is not so high - the length of the stems is 0.6-0.7 m, and the diameter of the crown grows to 1.2 m.

• Lovely Pink.

It is impossible to ignore another variety - cinquefoil shrub Lovely Pink (Pink Beauty), bred by breeders of Great Britain. The plant justifies its belonging to the Rosaceae family - its large bright pink flowers up to 5 cm in diameter abundantly cover a relatively low (0.5-0.6 m) bush. Despite the high decorativeness, Lovely Pink tolerates the conditions of the metropolis, drought and frost well. These qualities make it indispensable for decorating urban landscapes as a tapeworm or hedge. Gardeners plant shrubs in rabatki, rock gardens, in combination with perennials, and even use it as a ground cover plant.

• Princesses.

Cinquefoil Princess in adulthood reaches 0.6-0.8 m. The shrub is covered with light pink flowers with a yellow center, atypical for other plant species. The diameter of the flowers does not exceed 3 cm. Flowering lasts from May to November, depending on the climatic conditions of the growing area.

• Mango tango.

From the variety of species, the cinquefoil shrub Mango-tango stands out - a low shrub (0.5-0.6 m) with spectacular large mango-colored flowers. In cool weather, the red-orange flowers take on a rich red hue.

A wonderful decoration of the garden is the hybrid cinquefoil, bred by breeders by crossing different species. Its large double flowers can be of all kinds of shades: yellow, pink, red and purple.

The garden shrub cinquefoil is unpretentious and at the same time decorative, planting and caring for which does not cause any particular problems, regardless of the variety. This is how she earned the love of lovers of flowering plants and landscape designers.

Planting recommendations

The plant grows equally well on any, even marginal, soils. But the best result can be achieved by growing Kuril tea on loose nutrient soils with good drainage and an acidity index of pH 7.0-8.5.

In the wild, the quinfoil grows in large open spaces, well lit by the sun. In garden culture, bright corners of the garden are better suited for her, where the sun's rays will delight at least 6 hours during the day. Constant sun is undesirable for the plant - in bright light, the color of the flowers becomes pale.

Shrub cinquefoil, which can be planted in autumn, spring, and summer, has a superficial root system, so it does not need a deep planting pit. According to gardeners, it is still worth planting a shrub in early spring, as soon as the snow melts and the soil thaws:

• Prepare a hole wider and deeper two times than a store container or earthen lump (depending on how the roots of the plant are "packed").
• When planting as a hedge, a distance of at least 0.6-0.7 m is left between the bushes.
• At the bottom of the planting pit, a layer of lime gravel must be laid, which will serve as a drainage. River pebbles or broken bricks are also used as a drainage layer.
• Prepare a soil mixture of leafy earth, humus and sand in a ratio of 2: 2: 1.
• The pit is filled halfway with the prepared mixture. 100-150 g of complex mineral fertilizer is added to it, mixing the granules well with the ground.
• The seedling is not buried - the root collar should be slightly above ground level.
• Then the pit is covered with the remaining soil, only without the addition of fertilizers, well tamped and watered. After watering, the ground will settle and the root collar will be flush with the surface of the site, which is optimal for good growth of Potentilla.
• For the first three weeks, the five-leafed leaf is watered as the top layer of the earth dries up.

To prevent the soil from drying out too quickly, it is mulched with straw, wood chips or sawdust with a layer of 5-7 cm. In the future, rooted and adult plants will not have to be watered too often.

Care rules

Caring for cinquefoil shrubs includes watering, loosening, feeding and pruning.

Kuril tea tolerates dry air and prolonged lack of watering, but it is better not to allow the earth to dry out. During the summer season, it is watered additionally 3-4 times, pouring 1.5-2 buckets under each plant, and if the summer is dry, then the number of waterings is increased. The cinquefoil responds well to sprinkling, which is carried out in the evening after sunset.

They loosen the soil to a shallow depth of 5-10 cm, not forgetting the surface roots, which are easy to damage. Loosening and weeding helps oxygenate the plant roots and free the area from weeds.

Shrub cinquefoil, the varieties of which are distinguished by a variety of colors, can decorate flower beds and gardens for 20-30 years. Although most shrubs are naturally rounded, it must be maintained every year with formative pruning.

Pruning Potentilla shrub is carried out both in late autumn and early spring. If you carry out a "haircut" in the fall, then in the spring Kuril tea will not take away precious time, which is so lacking in this "hot" time for gardeners. However, residents of the middle lane and northern regions are better off allotting an hour of free time for spring pruning, so that the five-leafed leaf overwinters with the old branches - they will help keep the snow and transfer frost without loss.

For pruning, you will need a fan rake and a good pruner that can "bite", and not flatten, the branches of the bush, which with age reach a diameter of 1-1.2 cm:

• With a fan rake, they clear the soil around the bush, freeing it of old leaves and grass.
• The pruning shears are cut off the branches of the five-leafed leaf, trying to give the crown a symmetrical shape, reminiscent of a ball.
• When pruning, the branches are shortened by about a third of the length, maximum by half, no more.
• Dried and damaged branches are cut out completely.
• Slices are treated with garden pitch.

Formative pruning not only improves the appearance of the shrub, but also stimulates it to bloom profusely.During the summer, the sheared bush will transform into a dense green ball, densely strewn with flowers. Since Kuril tea belongs to slow-growing plants, gardeners recommend cutting the bush every 2-3 years.

Advice: Considering that the Potentilla plant is a "long-liver", gardeners recommend to carry out a radical rejuvenating haircut every 5-6 years, after which they leave hemp 15-20 cm above ground level. Young twigs will grow back rather quickly, and the plant will again take on a decorative look, but for this, after pruning, the cinquefoil must be fed.

The quinfoil is fertilized annually in the spring after the first green leaves appear. As a top dressing, phosphate fertilizer and potassium sulfate are used, which are diluted at the rate of 25-30 g per 10 liters of water. Knowing how to feed the plant, it is easy to achieve lush and long flowering.

Shrub cinquefoil, which is easy to care for, is highly resistant to insect pests and fungal diseases. When signs of rust or powdery mildew appear, the plant is treated with colloidal sulfur, Bordeaux liquid or ready-made fungicidal preparations.

It is not necessary to cover Kuril tea during cold weather - the plant's good winter hardiness makes it easier for gardeners to carry out preparatory work for the winter.

Herbaceous varieties

1. 1 Nepalese cinquefoil.

The varieties discussed above are perennial shrubs. Herbaceous varieties cannot be ignored. Of particular interest is the Nepalese Potentilla Miss Wilmont. This perennial with straight branched stems reaching a height of 0.5 m, and rather large pink-red flowers with a diameter of 2.5-3.0 cm, collected in paniculate inflorescences.

In recent years, it is the Nepalese Potentilla that has been popular with gardeners, the cultivation and care of which is within the power of even inexperienced growers.

Even an inexperienced gardener can grow Nepalese Potentilla seeds from seeds. Seeds are laid out on top of the ground and sprinkled with a small layer of earth. After 2-3 weeks, seedlings appear, and after another 2-3 weeks, the sprouts dive and are planted in a permanent place in the garden. For successful germination of seeds and growing seedlings, the air temperature should not fall below + 18 ° C.

Nepalese cinquefoil needs the same lighting and soil composition as shrub varieties, and timely feeding will ensure good growth and abundant flowering. However, it must be remembered that when planted with seeds, the plant will bloom only in the second year.

Nepalese cinquefoil also reproduces by dividing the rhizome in a simple and effective way. To do this, in the spring or autumn, they dig up the mother bush and cut it into several parts with a sharp disinfected pruner. Delenki are planted in a permanent place in the garden, set aside for future bushes. When planting in a row, a distance of at least 0.3 m is left between the bushes so that the overgrown Nepalese Potentilla does not drown out the neighboring bushes.

Nepalese cinquefoil does not require special care - all the same agrotechnical conditions are applicable to it as for shrub varieties.

2. 2 White cinquefoil.

Unlike its "congeners", white cinquefoil grows in height by only 8-25 cm. This perennial herb is used in folk medicine and pharmaceutical industry. Useful, from a medicinal point of view, are rhizomes harvested in the fall. Leaves and stems do not have healing properties and are of no value to herbalists.

The rhizomes of the quinfoil contain trace elements: silicon, aluminum, manganese, zinc and iodine. The iodine content gives the plant a special value - many medicinal preparations intended for the treatment of thyroid diseases include extracts and extracts of Potentilla.

The white cinquefoil herb grows in Europe, occupying the territory from the Volga to Central Europe, it can be found in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Italy and Yugoslavia.If the Nepalese cinquefoil prefers light areas, then the white loves semi-shady places and is found on forest edges, in copses and meadows. It is used by gardeners as a ground cover plant that suppresses the growth of weeds. This type of cinquefoil is grown even as an ampelous plant, planted in hanging pots.

Important: Due to the intensive development of forestry and agriculture, the plant can be seen less and less often - in many countries, where herbaceous cinquefoil used to be ubiquitous, it is included in the conservation lists of endangered species.

Application in landscape design

Without exception, all types and varieties of Potentilla are highly decorative. On any site, both shrub varieties and herbaceous varieties will look equally impressive.

Thanks to the formative pruning, the shrub cinquefoil will become a spectacular tapeworm that attracts the eye, and a hedge or a group planting of plants looks beautiful.

Low-growing five-leafed varieties are planted in flower beds, rockeries and rocky gardens, and herbaceous varieties are planted in flower beds in combination with other perennials. So, yellow cinquefoil looks nice with blue and blue flowers, red cinquefoil - with white and pink.

Absolutely any plants are worthy of being "neighbors" of Kuril tea, except for pine, which, like the five-leafed leaf, can be affected by rust.

An unpretentious and at the same time attractive Potentilla is able to decorate a city park, flower bed or lawn, and on the garden plot it is worth highlighting a corner for this unpretentious plant. Even a novice florist can grow a wonderful shrub that will bloom throughout the summer season.

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When planning to grow and propagate new crops in your garden, think about cinquefoil. Abundant and long-lasting flowering, easy care are the main advantages of this perennial. The article will tell you about the varieties of Potentilla and its planting in the open field.

Description of Potentilla: varieties and varieties

If in ancient times healers wanted to stop the blood from the wound, to anesthetize or cure poisoning, the cinquefoil came to the rescue. Care and cultivation of a crop does not cause trouble for gardeners. Now the perennial is more cultivated as an ornamental plant. There are at least 500 species of Potentilla shrub (five-leafed). Here are just some varieties:

1. Annette - up to 0.5 m, flowers are orange with a reddish tinge.

   Annette variety

2. Longacre - with yellow flowers.

   Longacre variety

3. Pink Queen - with creeping shoots and pink flowers, up to 60 cm in height.

   Pink Queen variety

4. Princess is a perennial cultivar with pale pink flowers.

   Princess variety

Anyone who has been growing and breeding Potentilla for several years knows that it makes an excellent drink rich in vitamin C. For this plant is called Kuril tea. In Siberia and the Kuriles, it is most common as a remedy for colds and flu. Those who have already used Potentilla in landscape design on their site, probably liked the ease of its cultivation and unpretentious care.

Planting a plant

The best option for a place is partial shade. When planting in a sunny area, you risk not admiring the bright bloom of the five-leafed plant. Some varieties burn out under hot rays.In absolute shade, the plant will not develop well.

Advice. Cinquefoil tolerates planting not only in open ground, but also in large flowerpots on balconies or loggias.

The soil should be rich in humus, well-drained, loam is preferred. The most demanding in this regard are pink varieties. Plant Potentilla in spring or fall. The depth of the holes is about 50 cm, the distance between them is about 60-80 cm. Lay the drainage in a layer up to 20 cm. It is best to use lime gravel: it contains calcium.

Choose a cozy place in partial shade for Potentilla

Pour soil with sand and humus on top. Place the seedling in the hole, making sure that the root collar does not go deep into the ground. Cover it with soil in combination with a complex mineral fertilizer. The final stages of planting are abundant watering and mulching with sawdust.

Advice. In addition to compost and sand, 100 g of lime or ash can be added to the pits for nutrition and maintenance.

Potentilla care

For good outdoor growth and flowering, the five-leaf plant needs moist soil. Therefore, the main rule of care is watering. Often, Potentilla has enough only rainwater, moreover, it is considered a drought-resistant plant. However, make sure that the soil does not dry out anyway.

For young seedlings in the first 3 weeks after planting, it should be poured half a bucket 1 time in 7-8 days. In hot summer, water it 2-3 times a week. A bucket of water will be enough for each bush, but not ice. Finish the procedure by loosening (5-10 cm deep) and mulching.

It is very important to maintain soil moisture

The appearance of Potentilla needs regular maintenance. Remove weeds and trim bushes. Pruning is best done in the spring or fall. Once every 3 years, trim the branches by about 1/3, or a little more if landscape design requires it.

Fertilization and feeding

In addition to the mineral fertilizer applied during planting, Potentilla needs the following dressings:

Potassium sulfate and phosphate fertilizer:

• 25-30 g of both per bucket of water;
• 1 bucket is enough for 1 bush;
• application time - spring.

For abundant flowering, the culture needs regular feeding.

Phosphorus and potash feeding:

• use any, in accordance with the instructions;
• application time - before flowering.

Reproduction of Potentilla

When growing Potentilla, 4 breeding methods are used:

• layering;
• cuttings;
• dividing the bush;
• seeds.

When propagating by layering, the incised shoot is bent to the ground. The place of the incision is fixed with a hairpin and sprinkled with soil. When the cuttings acquire their roots, they are planted in a new place. This is the easiest method.

Rooted cuttings of Potentilla

Cuttings are cut in the summer from those branches that appeared last year, removing the lower leaves. They are planted in moist soil in the shade of the garden, covered with a jar or bottle. Water during the day. The buds are removed so that they do not weaken the plant.

If the cinquefoil is already 4 years old, it can be divided and planted. The selected shoot with growth buds is separated from the main bush and rooted in the open field. They do this both in the spring and in the fall. The main condition is warm weather.

Seeds for subsequent reproduction are harvested either at the end of summer or in September-October. They can be dried and stored for several years or planted immediately. Spread them over the surface of the soil and press down lightly. Self-seeding is also used, which is characteristic of Potentilla. Young shoots from seeds are planted in temporary ridges, and after a couple of years - in a permanent place.

Diseases and pests

And here there is a reason to rejoice for gardeners who grow Potentilla. Planting and caring for her is also simple in that pest control is not needed. They practically do not touch this perennial plant. Almost the only attack is rust.

Cinquefoil is quite resistant to both disease and pest attacks.

Yellow-brown spots with a purple tint appear on the leaves.If the bush is severely affected, the foliage on it curls and dries up, spraying with a solution of manganese and boron or sulfur will be needed. Rust develops well on pine branches, avoid the neighborhood with this ephedra.

Shrub cinquefoil: combination with other plants

Good five-leaf partners:

• geyher;
• junipers;
• barberry;
• cotoneaster;
• host.

Cinquefoil in a flowerbed

The combination of yellow Potentilla looks bright with:

• catnip;
• lavender;
• hyssop.

Plants with white, blue and blue flowers are a good addition to the five-leafed plant.

Shrub cinquefoil in landscape design

This plant keeps its shape well. Curbs and hedges are beautiful. A single Potentilla bush on the lawn looks harmonious. Often in landscape design, this perennial is used for:

Cinquefoil in landscape design

• flower beds-mixborders;
• rosaries;
• rock gardens.

Shrub cinquefoil can grow in open ground for up to 20-30 years. Set aside a place for it and it will decorate your garden all year round.

Cinquefoil: video

Types of Potentilla shrub: photo

 

 

Cinquefoil (lat.Potentilla) is one of the largest genus of the Pink family in terms of the number of species, the most characteristic representatives of which are cinquefoil and erect cinquefoil, or galangal grass. Among the cinquefoil, of which there are about half a thousand species in the world, there are many herbaceous species of perennial, biennial and annual plants and shrubs. In the garden culture, both the cinquefoil grass and the cinquefoil shrub are grown.

The stems of representatives of this genus are most often erect, widened or ascending, sometimes creeping. Leaves are multiple or pinnate, green or gray-green in color. Shrub species of Potentilla reach a height of one and a half meters, expanding in width by about one meter. Flowers in most species are collected in pseudo-umbellate or corymbose-paniculate inflorescences, but there are species with single flowers. The color of the flowers is varied - red, golden yellow, orange, pink, cream, white. Potentilla bloom lasts a long time - from May to September. The fruit consists of a large number of seeds - from 10 to 80, usually glabrous, but sometimes hairy, and the more exotic the type of plant, the larger the fruit.

All cinquefoil is undemanding to growing conditions, with the exception of a few finicky species, which include, for example, white cinquefoil, which prefers to grow in the shade, or shiny cinquefoil, which thrives best in southern exposure on dry sandy soils. All other species like light areas shaded by other plants in the afternoon, and loose, slightly acidic, nutritious and well-drained soil containing little lime. The exception is arctic cinquefoil, which needs acidic soil.

   

 

Professionals say that it is possible to sow the seeds of herbaceous species of Potentilla simply in the ground in the fall, so that they undergo natural stratification over the winter, after which the seedlings sprout together in the spring, and all that remains is to plant them. You can sow seeds in the ground and in the spring. But it is better not to risk the seed and grow seedlings by sowing seeds in February or March and germinating them under polyethylene at a temperature of 15-18 ºC. As soon as real leaves appear at the seedlings, they need to be dived into separate cups or peat pots. Seedlings grow slowly, but, nevertheless, at the end of summer they are planted in open ground in a permanent place. Young plants need to be covered for the winter. Potentilla bloom from seeds in the second year. Cinquefoil often reproduces by self-seeding.

 

 

 

Planting shrub Potentilla. In early spring, when the snow melts and the soil thaws, the seedlings of shrub varieties of Potentilla are planted in holes that should be twice as deep and wider than an earthen ball or the size of a container in which the roots of Potentilla are located.The distance between the two bushes should be at least 30 cm.A layer of lime gravel is poured onto the bottom of the pit as drainage, then the pit is half-filled with a mixture of humus, leaf earth and sand in a ratio of 2: 2: 1, to which 150 g of complex mineral fertilizer is added ...

The seedling is lowered into the pit in such a way that its root collar is slightly above the level of the surface of the site, then the hole is filled to the top with garden soil, tamped and watered. For three weeks after planting, make sure that the cinquefoil does not experience a lack of water. Cover the area with straw, bark or sawdust to prevent the soil from drying out too quickly. If necessary, the planting of Potentilla is carried out in late summer or early autumn.

 

 

Cultivation of shrub Potentilla, like herbaceous Potentilla, does not require much effort. Plant care consists in weeding, loosening the soil, watering, feeding, removing wilted flowers and mulching the soil on the site. You will have to water the cinquefoil only during the absence of rain, once every two weeks, with a bucket of warm water under each bush, and if you mulch the area with peat or sawdust in the spring, then you also rarely have to weed and loosen the soil. In the summer, you will need to add mulch to the site two to three times. You need to feed Potentilla with mineral fertilizers for flowering plants three times a season - in May, July and in August or September. This is a mandatory program for the care of Potentilla, but if on sultry summer evenings at the end of a sultry day you spray Potentilla with water, it will thank you for it with abundant flowering.

 

   

In addition to the seed method of reproduction of Potentilla, vegetative methods are used - dividing the bush, cuttings and layering. Cutting and propagation by layering is carried out in July-August, and the division of the bush - in the spring, in April-May, or in the fall, at the beginning of September. To divide the cinquefoil rhizome, a bush that has reached the age of four is dug up, the rhizome is washed and cut into pieces with a sharp sterile knife, each of which should have 2-3 buds. The roots of the cut are treated with a rooting stimulator and planted in the ground, trying not to deepen the buds. When planting, observe the distance between the divisions of 20-40 cm.

Cuttings 8-10 cm long are cut from the ends of the shoots, removing the flowers. Shoots are rooted in moist perlite for a month or a month and a half in a frost-free room. You can plant them for rooting simply in the ground somewhere in a shady corner of the garden, covered with a jar or cut plastic bottle, spraying them several times a day. If buds appear, they must be cut off so that flowering does not weaken the rooting cutting. For the winter, cuttings are covered with spruce branches.

The easiest way to reproduce is layering. How to propagate Potentilla by layering? Choose a low-growing shoot in the spring, cut it on the outside, lay the shoot in the dug groove with the notch down, attach it to the ground exactly in this place and sprinkle it with earth. Until autumn, a root system is formed at the cutter and it can be separated from the mother plant and transplanted to a permanent place.

 

 

Pruning Potentilla
Growing and caring for shrub cinquefoil, in addition to the listed procedures, also requires pruning of the plant, which is carried out in early spring, before the buds open, and in autumn. If the cinquefoil is not cut, the plant becomes a shaggy, unkempt bush. Pruning Potentilla pursues sanitary purposes, for the sake of which broken, dry and growing branches are removed from the bush, and also serves to form a bush - most often the plant is given the shape of a ball or pillow. In the spring, the growth of the last year is cut by a third, and in the fall, too elongated and old shoots are removed. Mature plants are rejuvenated every five years or when a large number of dry twigs appear. To do this, for three years in a row, a third of the dry branches are cut off on the bush.The result is a complete update of the hive.

 

 

The annual Potentilla, when it loses its decorative effect, is removed, the site is dug up with fertilizers. After the end of flowering, the shoots of shrub Potentilla are cut by a third; as a preventive measure against diseases, the bushes are sprayed with Bordeaux liquid.

Cinquefoil is perennial, herbaceous or shrub, does not need shelter for the winter, since it has a high degree of cold resistance. Only rooted cuttings and young seedlings planted in autumn should be covered.

 

 

 

As you can see, planting and caring for cinquefoil is not at all burdensome, and you are unlikely to have to fight diseases or harmful insects, since pests and diseases rarely bother cinquefoil. Sometimes it is affected by rust, mottling or powdery mildew. If the infection occurred with an annual species of Potentilla, then there is no particular trouble in this - the plant will not lose its decorative effect, and in the fall it must still be disposed of. Perennial varieties and types of Potentilla need to be treated with a fungicide - Bordeaux liquid or colloidal sulfur, for example. Of the pests on the cinquefoil, scoops are sometimes found, which are destroyed by treating the plant with insecticides such as "Fufanon", "Decis Profi", "Fitoverm".

   

There are so many varieties and types of Potentilla that even listing them will take a full chapter, so we will introduce you only to the most popular types. So, among the herbaceous species, the most famous are:

 

Apennine cinquefoil (Potentilla apennina)

 

perennial with trifoliate silvery pubescent leaves, collected in a rosette, with pink or white flowers.

 

White cinquefoil (Potentilla alba)

 

It is a perennial from eight to twenty-five centimeters high with complex palmate-lobed basal leaves with brown stipules. Her flowers are white, up to three centimeters in diameter, collected in several pieces in loose umbellate or racemose inflorescences. Peduncles reach a height of 25 cm, the plant has no stem leaves.

 

Goose cinquefoil (Potentilla anserina)

 

Or Houndstooth. The basal rosette of this species is formed by pinnately complex leaves up to 20 cm long, pubescent on the underside. Peduncles are leafless, with single yellow flowers up to 2 cm in diameter.

 

Nepalese cinquefoil (Potentilla nepalensis)

 

Perennial plant up to 50 cm high with branched straight purple stems. The leaves are palmate, dark green, large - up to 30 cm long. Flowers, also large - up to 3 cm in diameter, red or light pink with dark pink veins - gathered in panicles, bloom from the beginning of July for almost two months. The most attractive varieties:

• Cinquefoil "Roxana" - with salmon-orange flowers in dark veins.
• Cinquefoil "Miss Wilmott" - pink cherry flowers with a dark eye. The variety blooms profusely and for a long time.
• Cinquefoil "Floris" - flowers with a pale salmon shade with a red-orange eye.

 

Erect cinquefoil or galangal (Potentilla erecta)

 

It grows in the tundra and forest zone on the edges, lawns along the banks of rivers and swamps. It is a perennial plant with an unevenly thickened woody rhizome. Erect stem no higher than 20 cm, branched in the upper part and leafy, trifoliate leaves - sessile stem, basal, dying at the beginning of flowering - on long petioles. Flowers, single, regular, up to 1 cm in diameter, on thin long pedicels, bloom in June-August.

 

Silver cinquefoil (Potentilla argentea)

 

Perennial with a large tuberous rhizome, slender arcuate rising stems up to 30 cm high, long-scaly basal and lower-stem leaves and three to five-part middle and upper stem leaves, densely covered with white pile on the underside. Loose corymbose-paniculate inflorescence consists of small flowers up to 12 mm in diameter. Plants of this species bloom in June-July.

 

Hybrid cinquefoil (Potentilla x hybrida)

 

this species combines varieties and garden forms of hybrid origin. In most plants, the rhizome is oblique or vertical, the stems are pubescent, strongly branching, erect, up to 90 cm high with leaves collected in a basal rosette - the lower leaves are trifoliate or fingerlike on long petioles with sharp teeth along the edges, the stem leaves are trifoliate, sessile.

Velvety flowers of this variety up to 4 cm in diameter, red, yellow, dark purple or pink, make up a loose racemose or corymbose inflorescence. Famous varieties:

• Cinquefoil "Master Floris" - plentiful and long-blooming cinquefoil with simple large yellowish flowers.

• Cinquefoil "Yellow Queen" - Potentilla up to 30 cm tall with yellow shiny flowers.
• Cinquefoil "Volcano" - Terry cinquefoil of bright red color.

In addition to the species described, two-flowered Potentilla, golden, long-leaved, shaggy, Kranza, deceptive, tansy-leaved, dark blood-red, silver-leaved, Tonga, three-toothed, shiny, stemless, snow-white, arctic and others have become widespread from herbaceous cinquefoil.

 

Yellow cinquefoil or Kuril tea

 

Of the shrub species, the Kuril cinquefoil is grown in culture, she is yellow cinquefoil, she is Kuril tea, she is a five-leafed (Pentaphylloides fruticosa). In the specialized literature, this species belonged to the Potentilla, however, recently it has been allocated into a separate genus - Kuril tea, Dasiphora (Dasys - thick-haired, phoros - carrying). This genus includes ten species, on the basis of which many cultivated garden forms and varieties have been developed, which are honey plants and are often used by designers to create a picturesque hedge.

 

Pentaphylloides davurica (Pentaphylloides davurica)

 

shrub, reaching a height of 60 cm with spaced bare shoots, five-part, almost leathery leaves, shiny on the upper side, and glaucous on the bottom. White flowers up to 2.5 cm in diameter, most often solitary, but sometimes they make up a few-flowered umbellate inflorescences, they bloom for more than three months.

 

Shrub five-leaf
(Pentaphylloides fruticosa)

 

In nature, it has a vast area, covering the forest and forest-steppe of Western Europe and Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It is an unusually hardy, highly branching plant up to one and a half meters high with gray or brown peeling bark and a dense hemispherical crown. Lanceolate whole-edged leaves up to three centimeters long and one three to five to seven-part wide, at a young age they are soft green, then they become silvery-green due to pubescence. Single or collected in loose apical shields or racemes, golden-yellow flowers up to 2 cm in diameter bloom from mid-June to early October.

Of the undersized varieties, the most popular are: Dakota Sunrise, Abbotswood, Goldstar, Jolina, Goldfinger, Reisenberg with flowers in orange-yellow tones and Farrers White and Rhodockalix with white flowers.

Tall, winter-hardy shrubs over a meter high are represented by the Elizabeth and Catherine Dykes varieties with yellow flowers.

Winter-hardy varieties with silver-gray leaves: Darts Golddigger, Goldterppich, Bisi.

Compact, low varieties requiring shelter for the winter: Klondike, Kobold with yellow flowers, Parvifolia, Red Ice, Red Robbin with copper-yellow flowers, Sunset with yellow-orange to red-brick flowers, Eastleigh Cream with creamy white flowers and Daydown, Royal Flash, Pritty Polly and Blink with pink flowers.

In addition to the described species of shrubby cinquefoil, of undoubted interest are the Manchurian, small-leaved, Friedrichsen and Dryadiflora pentaphones, the possibilities of which have not yet been sufficiently studied by breeders.

   

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Cinquefoil (Potentilla) belongs to one of the largest genera in terms of the number of species, which is part of the pink family. Its bright representatives are considered to be erect cinquefoil (galangal-grass) and cinquefoil goose. Most of the species of this genus in natural conditions can be found in the Northern Hemisphere. Cinquefoil comes from the Latin word "potent" - "powerful, strong." Apparently, this refers to the incredible healing power of individual representatives of this kind. All over the world, there are about 500 species of Potentilla, which are represented mainly by herbaceous plants, but there are also shrubs among them. At the same time, both grass and shrubs belonging to this genus are cultivated in gardens. The cinquefoil shrub in Russia is called Kuril tea or five-leafed, while there is an old legend that tells about Ilya Muromets, the smell of cinquefoil gave him unprecedented strength. Russian healers also call cinquefoil a mighty man, and since ancient times it has been used to heal a variety of ailments, as well as to restore strength. Today, this plant is mostly used as a decorative plant, and experts plant it on a green lawn as a tapeworm, and they also decorate curbs, alpine slides and hedges with it.

Features of Potentilla

Representatives of this genus are shrubs and herbaceous plants, which can be annuals, biennials and perennials. Shoots of such plants are often erect, ascending or extended, and creeping are also found. The leaf plates are pinnate or multipart, and they are colored grayish-green or green. The height of the dwarf shrubs can reach 150 centimeters, while their diameter sometimes reaches 100 centimeters. In most species, flowers are part of corymbose-paniculate or pseudo-umbellate inflorescences, however, species with single flowers are also found. They can be painted in a wide variety of colors, such as golden yellow, pink, white, red, orange and cream. Long bloom is observed in May-September. The fruit contains many achenes (10–80 pieces), most often they are naked, but they can be hairy. Moreover, the larger the size of the fruits, the more exotic the type of such a plant.

Planting Potentilla

Almost all representatives of this genus are distinguished by their undemanding growing conditions, with the exception of Shiny Potentilla, which is recommended to be grown in the southern exposure, choosing dry sandy soil for it, as well as White Potentilla - it likes to grow in a shaded place. For the remaining species, they are best suited to well-lit areas that should be shaded in the afternoon with other plants. They need a soil that is slightly acidic, loose, saturated with nutrients, and also well-drained, which has a little lime in its composition. It should be remembered that the Arctic Potentilla needs acidic soil.

How to grow herbaceous cinquefoil from seeds

Cinquefoil can be propagated by various methods, for example, grown from seeds. Experts advise sowing directly into open soil in autumn. In winter, such seeds undergo natural stratification, due to which in spring they give amicable shoots and they only need to be planted. Sowing can be done outdoors and in spring. However, a more reliable way is to grow through seedlings.To do this, sowing seeds should be done in February or March, while the container must be covered with a film before the first shoots appear and removed to a place with a temperature of 15 to 18 degrees. After the shoots have real leaf blades, they are picked on peat-baked or individual cups. The growth of seedlings is relatively slow, but already at the end of the summer period, the seedlings can be transplanted to a permanent place in open soil. Young plants will need shelter to survive the winter. The flowering of cinquefoil grown from seeds is observed only in the second year. These plants reproduce well by self-sowing.

How to plant shrub cinquefoil

In early spring, after the snow cover melts, and the soil warms up a little, you should start planting shrub seedlings. The width and depth of the pit should be a couple of times larger than a clod of earth or a container in which the seedling grows. If you are planting several bushes, then remember that the distance between them should be 0.3 m. At the bottom of the hole, a drainage layer should be made; for this, lime gravel is poured into it. Then the ½ part hole should be filled with soil mixture, which includes leaf earth, humus and sand (2: 2: 1), and 150 grams of complex mineral fertilizer must be added to it. When placing a seedling in a planting hole, it should be noted that its root collar should rise slightly above the soil surface. Then the pit should be filled with soil, which must be well compacted. The planting needs to be watered abundantly. For 20 days, it is necessary to ensure that Potentilla always has a sufficient amount of water. In order to reduce the rate of drying of the soil, it should be sprinkled with a layer of mulch (bark, straw or sawdust). If necessary, you can plant Potentilla in the last summer or first autumn days.

Potentilla care

It is quite simple to grow cinquefoil, and it does not matter whether it is a shrub or a herbaceous plant. For normal growth and development of the plant, it is necessary to regularly water, loosen the soil surface, remove weeds, feed, remove fading flowers, and also mulch the soil on the site. Watering should be done only with prolonged drought, while 10 liters of lukewarm water should be poured under each bush 1 time in half a month. In the event that in the spring time you sprinkle the area with mulch (sawdust or peat), then the removal of weeds and loosening of the soil will need to be carried out relatively rarely. During the summer period, add mulch to the site 2 or 3 times. Top dressing is carried out three times per season (in May, July and August or September), while using mineral fertilizer for flowering plants. For more lush flowering, it is also recommended to spray the cinquefoil with water in the evening after a hot day.

Reproduction of Potentilla

In addition to the fact that Potentilla is grown from seeds, it can be propagated by cuttings, layering and dividing the bush. Potentilla can be propagated by layering and cuttings in July or August, and it is recommended to divide the bush in spring (April or May) or autumn (early September) time. A specimen that is at least four years old is suitable for division, it must be dug up, the rhizome is washed with water from a hose, and then divided into divisions using a very sharp, pre-sterilized knife. It should be remembered that there should be 2 or 3 kidneys on each division. In the cases, it is necessary to process the roots with a means that stimulates their growth. Then they are planted in the soil, while the buds should not be buried. Remember to leave between 20 and 40 centimeters of empty space between the divisions.

The length of the cuttings varies from 8 to 10 centimeters, while they are harvested from the ends of the stems, having previously cut off all the flowers. For rooting, moistened perlite is used, it lasts for 4-6 weeks, while keeping the cuttings in a room that does not freeze.Cuttings can also be rooted directly in open soil by choosing a place for this in partial shade, while it is recommended to use a glass jar or a cut bottle as a shelter. Spraying them must be carried out several times a day. The buds that appear should be removed, because they can greatly weaken the plant. For wintering, they need to be covered with spruce branches.

It is easiest to propagate cinquefoil by layering. In springtime, you should look for a stem that grows very close to the soil surface. An incision must be made on its outer side. Then it is placed in the prepared groove with a notch down, fixed in this position (necessarily in this place) and covered with soil. With the onset of autumn, the cutter should develop a good root system. In this case, it should be cut off from the mother bush and planted in a permanent place.

Pruning Potentilla

Shrub cinquefoil needs mandatory pruning, which must be done in early spring, before the buds open, and also in autumn. In the event that pruning is not done, then the bush becomes shaggy and looks sloppy. Pruning can be sanitary, during which it is necessary to cut off all injured, dried out branches, as well as those that grow inward. Also, this procedure can be carried out in order to form a bush, and often it is given a pillow or spherical shape. In spring, last year's growths are shortened by 1/3, and in the fall, old and elongated stems should be cut off. Rejuvenating pruning will be needed for such a shrub once every 5 years, or it is carried out when many dried branches are found. To make such a pruning, it is necessary to cut off a third of the dried branches for 3 years in a row. This will lead to a complete renewal of the bush.

Diseases and pests

This plant is highly resistant to various diseases and harmful insects, which greatly facilitates its care. In rare cases, cinquefoil can get sick with spotting, rust or powdery mildew. In the event that one of these diseases struck the annual cinquefoil, then you should not worry, because this will not greatly affect the appearance of the bush, and in the autumn it will still have to be disposed of. If you have a perennial growing, then it is recommended to use a fungicide for its treatment (for example, colloidal sulfur or Bordeaux liquid). Also, in rare cases, scoops can settle on the bush. In order to get rid of them, treat the affected specimen with an insecticide (for example, Decis Profi, Fufanon or Fitoverm).

Cinquefoil after flowering

Autumn care

In autumn, the annual cinquefoil should be removed from the site after its appearance becomes unattractive, while it is necessary to dig the site with fertilizer. In shrub Potentilla, when it finishes blooming, all shoots should be shortened by 1/3, and for the prevention of diseases, the bushes should be treated with Bordeaux liquid.

Wintering

A perennial cinquefoil does not need shelter for the winter, because it has a high frost resistance, and it does not matter whether it is a herbaceous plant or a shrub. Young seedlings planted in autumn and rooted cuttings need shelter.

Types and varieties of Potentilla with photos and names

There are a lot of types of Potentilla, and there are several times more varieties. Therefore, only those varieties and species that are most popular will be presented below.

The herbaceous species that are most popular are:

Apennine cinquefoil (Potentilla apennina)

This perennial plant has a leaf rosette, consisting of trifoliate leaf plates with silvery pubescence. The color of the flowers is white or pink.

White cinquefoil (Potentilla alba)

In nature, it can be found in the central regions of the European part of Russia, in the Balkans and the Caucasus.The height of such a perennial plant varies from 8 to 25 centimeters, complex basal leaf plates are palmate-lobed, while they have brown stipules. Loose racemose or umbellate inflorescences consist of several white flowers with a three-centimeter diameter. The height of the peduncles is about 25 centimeters, the stem leaves are absent.

Cinquefoil goose, or goose foot (Potentilla anserina)

Peristocomplex leaf plates are collected in a basal rosette and reach 20 centimeters in length, there is pubescence on their seamy surface. On leafless peduncles, single yellow flowers flaunt, which can reach 20 mm in diameter.

Nepalese cinquefoil (Potentilla nepalensis)

This perennial can reach half a meter in height, its straight branched shoots are purple in color. The length of the dark green palmate leaf plates is about 0.3 m. The diameter of the flowers is about 30 mm, their color can be pale pink or red, and the veins are dark pink. Flowers are part of paniculate inflorescences. Flowering begins in July and lasts about 8 weeks. The most decorative varieties:

1. Roxanne... On the surface of the salmon-orange flowers, there are streaks of dark color.
2. Miss Wilmott... It blooms luxuriantly and for a relatively long time. Cherry pink flowers have a dark eye.
3. Floris... On light salmon flowers, an orange-red eye flaunts.

Erect cinquefoil, or straight, or galangal (Potentilla erecta)

In nature, this species can be found in the forest and tundra zone, while these flowers grow on lawns and forest edges, along the banks of swamps and rivers. Such a perennial has a woody rhizome, which is unevenly thickened. The height of the erect stem reaches 20 centimeters, leaves are located on its upper branchy part. Trifoliate leaf plates can be sessile and long-petiolate basal plates (wither before flowering). Regular single flowers can reach 10 mm in diameter, they are located on thin long pedicels. Bloom is observed from June to August.

Silver cinquefoil (Potentilla argentea)

This perennial has a large tuberous rhizome. The height of a slender arcuate rising shoot can reach up to 0.3 m. The lower-stem and basal leaf plates are five to seven-part long-scaled, and the upper-stem and middle ones are three to five-part, on the seamy surface there is a dense coating consisting of white pile. The loose paniculate-corymbose inflorescence includes small flowers, the diameter of which is 1.2 centimeters. Bloom is observed in June and July.

Hybrid cinquefoil (Potentilla x hybrida)

This species includes garden forms and varieties of hybrid origin. Most of the plants have a vertical or oblique rhizome. The height of erect, strongly branching stems reaches 0.9 m, there is pubescence on their surface. The basal rosette consists of palmate or triple long-petiolate leaf plates with sharp teeth along the edge. The trifoliate stems are sessile. The loose corymbose or racemose inflorescence includes velvety flowers reaching 40 mm in diameter, their color can be yellow, pink, red or dark purple.

Popular varieties:

1. Master Floris... Lush and long flowering. Large, simple flowers are pale yellow in color.
2. Yellow Queen... The bush reaches a height of 0.3 m, and yellow glossy flowers flaunt on it.
3. Volcano... Terry flowers, deep red color.

Potentilla is also very popular: two-flowered, golden, long-leaved, shaggy, Kranza, deceptive, tansy, dark blood-red, silver-leaved, Tonga, three-toothed, shiny, stemless, snow-white, arctic, etc.

Of the shrubs, gardeners cultivate the Kuril cinquefoil (Pentaphylloides fruticosa), which is also called Kuril tea, yellow cinquefoil and five-leafed cinquefoil. Experts previously attributed this species to Potentilla, but not so long ago they isolated it in a separate genus, called Kuril tea, Dasiphora (Dasys - thick-haired, phoros - carrying). This genus consists of 10 species, a large number of varieties and garden forms, which are honey plants, have already been created from them. Designers often create a very effective hedge from such shrubs.

Pentaphylloides davurica (Pentaphylloides davurica)

The height of such a shrub can reach up to 0.6 m. Its bare stems are spaced apart. Almost leathery five-part leaf plates have a bluish seamy surface and a glossy front surface. The diameter of the white flowers is about 25 mm, they are often solitary, but in some cases they can be part of a few-flowered umbrella-shaped inflorescences. Long-term flowering, more than 3 months. Cultivated since 1822.

Pentaphylloides fruticosa (Pentaphylloides fruticosa)

In nature, it can be found in forest-steppes and forests, Russia, Central Asia, Western Europe and the Caucasus. Such a shrub is distinguished by its high endurance. The height of a highly branching bush can reach up to 150 centimeters, the peeling bark is colored brown or gray. The lush crown has a hemispherical shape. All-edge lanceolate leaf plates have a length of 30 mm and a width of 10 mm, they can be three-five-seven-part. Young leaves have a light green color, but over time it changes to green-silver, as pubescence appears. Yellow-golden flowers have a diameter of 20 mm, while they can be single or collected in loose apical racemose or corymbose inflorescences. Flowering lasts from the second half of June to the first days of October. Cultivated since 1700 In America and European countries, as a rule, cultivars of this type are grown, because they are the most resistant to such climatic conditions.

Popular undersized varieties: Abbotswood, Jolina, Dakota Sunrise, Goldstar, Goldfinger, Reisenberg (flowers vary in orange-yellow colors), Farrez White and Rhodockelix (white flowers).

Winter-hardy tall varieties include the Elizabeth and Catherine Dykes varieties with yellow flowers. The height of the bushes reaches over 100 centimeters.

Winter-hardy varieties with grayish-silver leaf plates include Goldterppich, Darts Golddigger, Bisi.

Low-growing compact varieties that are not frost-resistant and need shelter for the winter: Klondike, Kobold (yellow flowers), Red Ice, Parvifolia, Red Robbin (copper-yellow flowers), Sunset (brick-red to orange-yellow flowers ), Eastleigh Cream (cream-white flowers), Royal Flash, Daydown, Pritty Polly and Blink (pink flowers).

Also of particular interest are the following species: small-leaved five-leaved, dryadiflorous, Manchurian and Friedrichsen. They are still poorly understood by breeders.

Useful properties and contraindications

Useful properties of Potentilla

The medicinal properties were observed mainly in only 3 species of herbaceous Potentilla, namely: goose, white and galangal (erect). The properties of these species have minor differences. Therefore, it does not really matter from which plant this or that medicine is made, intended for external use. As a result of numerous studies, it became clear that extracts made from rhizomes or herbs are not toxic and have almost equal healing power. If you take medicinal products from the white cinquefoil herb inside, then the central nervous system (central nervous system) is stimulated, while the extract from the rhizome makes the filtering ability of the kidneys 28 percent better.Kalgan is used, as a rule, for various disorders of the gastrointestinal tract (for example, colitis, dysentery), which are accompanied by diarrhea. Also, this plant is used in the treatment of liver diseases that are manifested by jaundice, for example, hepatitis. Today galangal is also used by official medicine for inflammation of the thyroid gland. In this case, tincture of Potentilla on alcohol is used, which is taken according to the scheme recommended by the doctor inside, while simultaneously being treated with medicines, such therapy is quite effective. It is not difficult to prepare a tincture, for this you need to take a dry rhizome and grind it, you should insist on vodka, then the resulting drink must be filtered. Kalgan is considered a unique plant, since it contains almost all the elements from the periodic table, namely: gallotanin, phenol carboxylic acids, starch, saponins, flavonoids (rutin, quercetin, cyanidin, kaempferol), iridoids, iodine, magnesium, copper, zinc , iron, cobalt, silicon, aluminum. At the same time, it is known that the rhizome contains a greater amount of these substances than in the aerial part of the flower.

The healing power of Potentilla erect is also known for a long time. The composition of this plant includes such substances as: tanning, and also essential oils, flavonoids, ellagic, malic and chitinic acids, wax, starch and gum, as well as vitamin C. Such a plant has an antibacterial, bonding and anti-inflammatory effect. An essential oil is obtained from this flower, which helps in the treatment of certain female diseases. Various decoctions and tinctures are prepared from it, which are used externally in the treatment of atopic dermatitis, for douching for gynecological diseases, for eczema, and they rinse the mouth and larynx with them in the presence of inflammation. Infusions and decoctions made from shoots, leaves, and flowers of a plant are used in the treatment of chronic and acute hepatitis, as well as in cirrhosis with congestion (significantly reduces the level of bilirubin in the blood and eliminates puffiness). If you use remedies made from such a plant in treatment, then remember that they can cause constipation, because there are many tannins in the cinquefoil.

The composition of the goose cinquefoil also includes essential oils, starch, flavonoids, tannins, as well as bitterness, choline, quinic and ascorbic acid, zinc and other substances that are useful for the human body. Any part of such a plant has healing properties. A decoction prepared from the rhizome is used for the external treatment of abrasions, bruises, wounds, hematomas, neurodermatitis and weeping eczema. Also, this broth is used for douching for a variety of gynecological inflammations, as well as for the treatment of hemorrhoids, while the result of such treatment is very good. It is also used in the treatment of duodenal and stomach ulcers, as well as in acute intestinal infections and hepatitis. A decoction in milk is prepared from the seeds, which is used for painful menstruation, gastroenteritis and spastic colitis. A decoction of the root and herb, cooked in water, effectively eliminates cramps in the calf muscles. Freshly prepared herbal infusion is used externally in the treatment of trophic ulcers and pustular lesions of the epidermis, and it is also used in the treatment of inflammation of the oral mucosa, with pharyngitis and sore throat. As a choleretic agent that can remove small stones and sand, fresh juice of this plant is used, combined with green rye juice in a 1: 1 ratio.

Of the shrubs, healing properties were noted in Kuril Potentilla, while using the tops of young stems.This plant has a diuretic, antiulcer, hemostatic, antiviral, analgesic, choleretic, fastening, sedative, antidiabetic, anti-allergenic and immunostimulating effect. It is used in the treatment of female and gastrointestinal diseases, abscesses, boils and other wounds, and they also rinse their mouth for stomatitis, sore throat and other inflammatory diseases. It is used for constipation and diarrhea, dysbiosis, stomach ulcers, colitis, cervical erosion and uterine bleeding.

Contraindications

It is impossible to use preparations from Potentilla for those people who have increased blood clotting, hypotonic, and also prone to the formation of blood clots, because such drugs can lower blood pressure. If you want to remove stones and sand from the ducts with the help of this plant, then this should be done exclusively under the supervision of the attending doctor. It should also be remembered that such agents can irritate the stomach lining. And also they cannot be used during pregnancy and with individual intolerance to Potentilla.