A low spreading plant bearing silvery downy stem and 1 yellow flower on each long stalk rising from axils of palmately compound leaves with 5 leaflets.

1/2-5/8" wide; sepals and petals 5 each; stamens and pistils numerous; first flower rising from axil of first leaf.

Leaflets to 1 1/2" long, toothed at tip, untoothed below middle.

Dry, seed-like.

2- 6"; stems prostrate after flowering.

March-June.

Dry open soil.

This species is very similar to Common Cinquefoil (P.simplex), but the latter has larger leaflets to 2 1/2" long, and the first flower rises from the axil of the second leaf; it is found throughout our area, except the Prairie Provinces and the Dakotas. Both species are indicators of impoverised soil.