(Jul-97; top of Hill Rd, Danby)
Common Cinquefoil
Family: Rose
Season: late-spring/summer
Common Cinquefoil
A very common flower growing in fields, raodsides, open spaces. Small, yellow, 5-petaled, happy flower. Jagged-toothed five part leaves - which gives the family its name. Prostrate, trailing stem that can root at the leaf axils.
This trailing plant can easily be mistaken for some type of yellow strawberry, but the 5-part leaves are a "give-away". Mostly a spring flower, but can bloom most the summer season.