Japanese name: ミツバツチグリ（三葉土栗） Scientific name:Potentilla freyniana
[Overview]
A perennial 5–20 cm tall, found in sunny grasslands and by roadsides.
It has a thick, short rhizome.
It is covered with short hairs.
It spreads by extending 1–6 stolons.
The leaves arise from the base, and several are also borne on the stolons.
The basal leaves are ternately compound; the leaflets are elliptic to ovate, 1–5 cm long and 0.6–3 cm wide.
The underside of the leaves is greenish white, often tinged with purple, and the leaf margins have serrations.
The petiole is 3–5 cm long.
A cyme bears 2–10 flowers.
The flowers are yellow with 5 petals, 0.8–1.5 cm across.
The fruit is an achene.
