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Potentilla Reptans L

POTENTILLA REPTANS L. Sp. Pl. 499. 1753.

This European species has been collected by Martindale in 1876 on ballast in New Jersey. It differs from P. Canacleitsis in the creeping and rooting stem, smaller leaves and large, ovate or elliptical bractlets, which exceed the sepals.