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Description : These grow everywhere, but this time the picture came out, so I figured I'd include it. It's sprawly and not upright like the sulpher cinquefoil is.

A cinquefoil in the mowed area across Vassar Street from here got me interested in the local wildflowers, after I had trouble identifying it. Of course, the answer to "what has leaves in threes like a strawberry and little yellow flowers?" turned out to be "a cinquefoil that got run over by a lawnmower" but I now greet these like old friends when I see them.

Common Name : Common Cinquefoil
Latin Name : Potentilla simplex
Location : The train tracks near Fort Washington Park, Cambridge, MA
Date : 2002-06-08
Event : A Walk along the train tracks, Cambridge MA
 
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