Potentilla canadensis

Potentilla canadensis
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.

Potentilla canadensis, the dwarf cinquefoil, is a species of cinquefoil (genus Potentilla) native to North America.[1]

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]

References

1. "USDA Plants Database".
2. Herrick, James William (1977). Iroquois Medical Botany (PhD thesis). Albany: State University of New York. p. 353.
3. Swanton, John R (1928). Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians (Report). SI-BAE Annual Report. Vol. 42. p. 667.
4. Niering, William A.; Olmstead, Nancy C. (1985) [1979]. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Eastern Region. Knopf. p. 753. ISBN 0-394-50432-1.
5. "Diastrophus potentillae". Gallformers. gallformers.org. Retrieved 8 March 2023.