Rosaceae
Pink cinquefoil
Potentilla nitida
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Potentilla
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Common names
By language (4)
- English
- Pink cinquefoil
- German
- Dolomiten-Fingerkraut
- Slovenian
- Triglavska roža
- Swedish
- Glansfingerört
Synonyms
- Dasiphora nitida (L.) Raf.
- Fragaria nitida (L.) Crantz
- Fragariastrum nitidum (L.) Kechaykin & Shmakov
- Potentilla nitida f. albiflora F.Saut.
- Potentilla nitida f. edentata (Ser.) Th.Wolf
- Potentilla nitida f. multidentata (Ser.) Th.Wolf
- Potentilla nitida f. vegetior Th.Wolf
- Potentilla nitida var. atrorubens Bergmans
- Potentilla nitida var. edentata Ser.
- Potentilla nitida var. grandiflora Bergmans
- Potentilla nitida var. multidentata Ser.
- Potentilla nitida var. typica Poeverl.
- Potentilla terglouensis Hacq.
- Potentilla terglouvensis Hacq.
- Potentilla terglovensis Hacq.
- Trichothalamus nitidus Spreng.
Flowers
- In flower
- July to August (from 215 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Marcello Manara, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Leif Stridvall, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Johannes, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Erik from Laagri, Estonia, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: geraldine durdon . le moal, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Felicia Seichter, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: LubovGorshkova, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Josef Stulz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Hubert Sztyler, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Andrea Schieber from München, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.