Silverweed
Potentilla anserina
In Dutch: Zilverschoon
PerennialsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 5 to 30 cm
- Spread
- 0.1 to 0.5 m per plant, spreads by runners
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Moist to wet, also compacted
- Water
- Average: likes moist soil
- Maintenance
- Low: cut back the runners now and then
- Flowers
- May to August, golden yellow
- For bees
- Little: not on the Dutch honeybee forage lists
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No, as far as is known
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €2.49 to €4.09 each, young plant
- Price, grown
- Not for sale
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- May to August
- Fruit
- no noticeable fruit