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Potentilla is a genus of about 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs and small shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. Common names include cinquefoil, tormentil, barren strawberry and silverweed.

Many of the species have leaves divided into five leaflets arranged palmately (like the fingers of a hand), whence the name cinquefoil (French, cinque feuilles, "five leaves"), though some species (e.g. P. sterilis) have just three leaflets, and others (e.g. P. anserina) up to 15 or more leaflets arranged pinnately.

They are closely related to the avens in the genera GeumFor the river, see Geum River. Geum Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Rosales Family: Rosaceae Subfamily: Rosoideae Genus Geum Species About 50, including: G. canadense White Avens G. macrophyll and DryasDryas ''Dryas octopetala Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Rosales Family: Rosaceae Subfamily: Rosoideae Genus Dryas D. drummondii Drummond's Avens D. integrifolia Entire-leaved Avens D. octopetala Mountain Avens Dryas i, and also to the strawberries in the genus FragariaThe strawberry Fragaria is the fruit of a plant in the family Rosaceae (Rose Family). It is an accessory fruit; that is, the fleshy part is derived not from the ovaries (which are the seeds, actually achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthi, differing from the strawberries in having dry, inedible fruit (hence the name "barren strawberry" for some species).

Several species are popular garden plants, particularly the shrubby P. fruticosa. Different cultivarA cultivar is a cultivated variety of a plant species. Modern cultivars are often, but not necessarily, hybrids between species; they may equally well represent particularly desirable selections from populations of a single species. Cultivars generally ars of this species are variable with flowers ranging from white to yellow, orange and pink, but they are all hardy plants that produce flowers for much of the summer. The flowers are always small, flat, and round, but there are many dozens on each bush. They are popular throughout its native EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se, and also grown in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in and southern CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe. It is very often used by cities and businesses for landscaping because of its hardiness and low maintenance.