#dasiphora

Yellow #Dasiphora is my latest post for Cee's FOTD Sep 01 #photography

Hi all 😃 My latest post for Cee’s FOTD.

Dasiphora fruticosa, Rosaceae

A few days ago I posted about an orange cultivar of Shrubby cinquefoil, but in this photos you can see the native bright yellow coloured species, which is just as commonly used as an ornamental here in Scotland due to its hardiness. 

Dasiphora fruticosa, Rosaceae

Shrubby cinquefoil, formerly known as Potentilla fruticosa and placed in the homonymus genus Potentilla, is often selected as an ornamental in small edges and flowerbeds, as it is native to temperate and subarctic areas of the northern hemisphere, both in the Old and New World, and thus very hardy and well adapted to short warm spells and long chilly winters, making it ideal for urban landscaping and gardens here in Scotland. 

It flowers abundantly throughout summer and generally produces yellow blossoms in the wild, with orange tones more commonly encountered in the Asian species, although white, pink, orange and red shades have been selected through breeding in the last century. The plant in the photos is most likely an orange cultivar, but I am not sure about which one as there are many with blossoms like this and it can be hard to tell one from another.