Potentilla or Sibbaldia

I've never seen a Sibbaldia with flowers that showy but then I am only familiar with S. procumbens!  Yours is a cutie!

Hi Trond

Can you provide the original CC or perhaps CC et al collection number?  This will help me suggest an identification. Potentilla cuneata is a possibility.

A welcome weed for me in my Minnesota climate, too.  It seems to proliferate in the more newly cultivated, open, gravelly sites, and numbers peter out to almost nothing as the meadow ages.  But it does have more staying power than another European here - Echium vulgare (Vipors Bugloss).

Just an aside... Rick, you hit on what is probably my favourite common name - "viper's bugloss".  Whenever it's used in the presence of someone who is unfamiliar with it, it seems to cause befuddlement and downright disbelief... ("Say what?"  ???)  ;D ;D

RickR wrote:

A welcome weed for me in my Minnesota climate, too.  It seems to proliferate in the more newly cultivated, open, gravelly sites, and numbers peter out to almost nothing as the meadow ages.  But it does have more staying power than another European here - Echium vulgare (Vipors Bugloss).

Oops! that went in the wrong thread, as I was talking about Potentilla recta.  But I suspect you all realized that anyway...

Chris wrote:

Hi Trond

Can you provide the original CC or perhaps CC et al collection number?  This will help me suggest an identification. Potentilla cuneata is a possibility.

Hello Chris,
So you have found this site too ;)

I'm however afraid I can't provide any collection number - I am not good at filing information of my plants :(
Although P cuneata looks similar it is not identical to my plants according to the pics I get when googling it.