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Instead, prune potentilla when the plants are dormant in winter and clip back the thickest stems all the way to the ground since these stems usually won’t rebloom.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025 Plant or prune ground covers to clear dead portions and stimulate new growth — including ice plant, ivy, potentilla and wild strawberry.—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025 This also works well on potentilla and summer blooming spirea.—Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024 Inside the freezer in Framingham are tightly sealed packages containing an estimated 6 million seeds from hundreds of plant species, bearing obscure or hard-to-pronounce names like potentilla robbinsiana.—Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Medieval Latin, garden heliotrope, from Latin potent-, potens
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