
Potentilla
- Botanical Name
- Potentilla fruticosa
- Min Zone
- 2
- Height
- 1 to 4 feet
- Width
- 2 to 4 feet
- Flowers
- June to frost: yellow, pink, white; buttercup-like, single or in cymes
- Light
- Full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, tolerates poor soils
- Planting & Care
- Transplants easily
- Salt and drought tolerant
- Does well in extreme cold
- Renewal prune in late winter to keep it looking its best
- Problems
- Can look scrappy (renewal prune)
- Varieties
- Abbotswood - large white flowers, 3 feet tall and wide, dark bluish-green foliage
- Fargo - deep golden 1 inch flowers, compact spreading, 2 to 3 feet tall, 3 to 4 feet wide
- Pink Beauty - pink flowers
- McKay's White - creamy white flowers, fruitless, Zone 3
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