Winter Aconite

[KeenTeen17]

Is this winter aconite or creeping cinquefoil. Personally I think the leaves look a bit wrong for aconite

[diggleken]

Agree KT, leaves and 6 sepals are wrong for Aconite, a potentilla spp is better, with 5 sepals, reptans seems very close.
Ken

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by KeenTeen17

Is this winter aconite or creeping cinquefoil. Personally I think the leaves look a bit wrong for aconite

I think this looks more like a Yellow Flowered Strawberry - Duchesnea indica.
(Cinquefoil wouldn't have the whorl below the flower).
See link: -
Strawberry, Yellow-flowered

Regards
Mike.

[JennyS]

Yes, Mike's right

[diggleken]

Nice one Mike!
Ken

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by JennyS

Yes, Mike's right

Originally Posted by diggleken

Nice one Mike!
Ken

I found some in fruit earlier this year for the first time, (Red spheres with nodules all over), and wondered what it was.

It was only when I later chanced upon it on the internet that I found out what it actually was.

I understand that it has been reclassified as Potentilla indica, but most refrences are still using Duchesnia. (Also known as Indian Strawberry).

Regards
Mike.

[Gypsy Orchid]

Very interesting Mike I have not come across this flower before .
Welldone Keen Teen for finding it.

[Lancashire Lad]

Originally Posted by Gypsy Orchid

Very interesting Mike I have not come across this flower before .
Welldone Keen Teen for finding it.

It has a very strange looking fruit. (Google some images and you'll see what I mean). It is classed as invasive and is obviously spreading within the UK.

This was my original thread on the plant: -

Wild? Indian Strawberries.

Regards
Mike.

[aeshna5]

I found a lot of this flowering/fruiting in a rough lawn in London yesterday. It was only a handful of years I first saw this plant, but now come across it fairly frequently in urban/suburban areas.

[KeenTeen17]

hey. I am well chuffed. thats a new plant for me