Potentilla Fruticosa Red

Dasiphora fruticosa is a disputed name and the plant is still widely referenced in the horticultural literature under its synonym potentilla fruticosa.

Potentilla fruticosa red. Potentilla fruticosa red ace shrubby cinquefoil is a bushy densely branched deciduous shrub boasting masses of bright vermilion red flowers adorned with pale yellow undersides from late spring to the first frosts. The large 1 1 2 inch yellow flowers stand out dramatically against fine textured finger like foliage. Mounding spreading habit 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Their leaves are greenish gray.

A hardy tough adaptable plant. Description cultivars of potentilla fruticosa have a rounded habit and reach a height of only 3 to 4. The blossoms are so profuse that they literally smother the plant. Dasiphora fruticosa is a species of hardy deciduous flowering shrub in the family rosaceae native to the cool temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere often growing at high altitudes in mountains.

Potentilla fruticosa red ace shrubby cinquefoil red ace rhs plants for pollinators plants this plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects. The gardenfocused approved online supplier of potentilla red robin is crocus. Red robin sometimes called marian red robin has an rhs award of garden merit. Potentilla fruticosa red ace shrubby cinquefoil red ace will reach a height of 1m and a spread of 1m after 5 10 years.

Most cultivars are grown for flower color which ranges from white to yellow to red orange as well as for their long bloom the flowering peaks in early may or june and then occurs intermittently until frost. Late spring to fall. Potentilla fruticosa syn dasiphora fruticosa zones. A dense multi stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less compact dwarf habit of growth.

Medicine wheel mountain has an rhs award of garden merit. Type deciduous shrub sun full sun height 2 ft soil moist well drained. Large orange red blooms persist throughout the season from spring through fall may until frost. Red ace probably the the reddest of all the potentilla flowers with a yellow gold centre.

Flowers will change from red to yellow under intense heat.