Potentilla canadensis
Species of flowering plant
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Potentilla canadensis, the dwarf cinquefoil, is a species of cinquefoil (genus Potentilla) native to North America.[1]
| Potentilla canadensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Potentilla |
| Species: | P. canadensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Potentilla canadensis L. | |
The Iroquois take a pounded infusion of the roots as an antidiarrheal.[2] The Natchez give the plant as a drug for those believed to be bewitched.[3]
Along with Potentilla simplex, the plant is an indicator of impoverished soil[4] as well as the host species for the cinquefoil bud gall wasp Diastrophus potentillae.[5]
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