potentilla

By the little bridge itself the turf is spangled with yellow quadrants of tormentil – a miniature heathland potentilla the woody, red, astringent rhizome of which was much prized by the apothecaries.

Country diary: Barmouth 2010

Forget the part about comparing post-modernists in academia to Jews under Nazi rule or closet homosexuals, the idea that Ophelia Benson was actually blaming him for the death of ‘potentilla’ shows a remarkable willingness to make himself the victim.

Steve Fuller shows us what he's made of - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Ishmael sat upon the dry grass, where the tiny yellow stars of the creeping potentilla gleamed up at him through the soft dusk, and lay almost too idle for thought.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

The mountain dock, mountain dandelion, and potentilla seldom fail to appear later.

The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' John H. Williams

At first the immediate landscape was beautified by wild flowers; the blue of the harebells was exquisitely set off by masses of golden St. John's wort, and on our walk to The Rocks we would trample down meadow-sweet, marsh mallow, bird's foot trefoil, and potentilla.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

Here are cress, blue violets, potentilla, and, in the damp of the willow fence-rows, white false asphodels.

The Land of Little Rain 1903

In size there is the difference between the huge _terminalia_ towering up 200 feet high and the tiny little potentilla; between the atlas moth 12 inches in spread and the hardly discernible midges; between the elephant, massive enough to trample its way through the densest forest, and the humble little mouse peeping out of its hole in the ground.

The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

Here are cress, blue violets, potentilla, and, in the damp of the willow fence-rows, white false asphodels.

The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

Edwinia, with its attractive waxy white flowers, and potentilla, with bloom of gold, are shrubs which lend a charm to much of the mountain-section.

Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

The alpine spiraea grows here also and blossoms profusely with potentilla, erigeron, eriogonum, pentstemon, solidago, and an interesting species of onion, and four or five species of grasses and sedges.

The Yosemite John Muir 1876