Creeping Cinquefoil, Russian Cinquefoil   and   Ternate-leaved Cinquefoil, Göteborg, March 21st, 2003

Potentilla reptans
Revfingerört i januari och i maj

Potentilla intermedia
Finsk fingerört i september, i november, i maj och i juni

Potentilla norvegica
Norsk fingerört i maj, i juni, i januari, och i augusti



Eva Ekeblad, 2003

the creeping cinquefoil (left)
winds neat and clean
through its mossy patch of lawn

the russian (above) survives
flattened and dirty
between the parking lot and the construction sign

the ternate
leaved
at the edge of a flowerbed
smudged with a fresher
kind of soil