| Description | Silverweed (Argentina anserina) is a low growing perennial wild flower with yellow flowers. Underside of leaves can have a silvery color. Spread by red stolons (runners) |
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| Plant Type | Wild Flowers, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | adaptable, sandy gravely, will grow in sand, among rocks |
| Flowers | yellow, 5 petals, solitary in axils |
| Fruit | seeds have a corky-like covering, they can float in water |
| Leaves | pinnate compound, serrated margins, silvery sheen of downy hairs underside of leaf |
| Stems | stolons like a strawberry plant, forms clonal colonies from the spreading stolons |
| Roots | taproot with lateral branches |
| Dimensions | 2-6 inches tall, spreads by runners (stolons) |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Misc Facts | Has been cultivated as a food crop for its edible root AKA: Potentilla anserina, Silver Weed |
| Author's Notes | I have seen this plant growing in pure sand on the shores of lakes. |
| Notes & Reference | #191-Minnesota Wild Flowers (www.minnesotawildflowers.info), #153-Illinois Wild Flower (www.illinoiswildflowers.info) |
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