Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Three-toothed Cinquefoil has a slightly woody (suffruticose) stem, as short as it is, and the plant is barely 4-6" tall or long. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Sibbaldia retusa
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sibbaldiopsis tridentata
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The Biota of North America Program. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Sibbaldia tridentata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-04-008:
Potentilla tridentata
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sibbaldiopsis tridentata
COMMON NAME:
Wineleaf Cinqefoil, Mountain Cinqefoil, Three-toothed Cinqefoil, Mountain White Potentilla
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sitr3_001_lvd
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Diane Creaton dmc03298
June Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
Though superficially appearing herbaceous, it is really an evergreen sub-shrub, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm100626_146
June Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
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Keith Bradley kab_s_tridentata_9860
June Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
White flowers, borne on thin wiry stems 2-12" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
flowers of Cinquefoil and Strawberry species
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Keith Bradley kab_s_tridentata_9864
June Buncombe County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm0407t_30
July Mitchell County NC
The Roan Highlands
The leaflets are wedge-shaped and have 3 teeth at the apex, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.