Dasiphora [Potentilla] fruticosa (Shrubby Cinquefoil) Size:1 gal SE The trunk is sometimes flared

The trunk is sometimes flared out near the bottom (buttressed) with reddish brown to gray bark that is fibrous and vertically ridged

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The bark is dark reddish/brown

Its berry-like fruit ripens from white to pale blue

with raised horizontal ridges (lenticels)

Dasiphora [Potentilla] fruticosa (Shrubby Cinquefoil) Size:1 gal SE The trunk is sometimes flaredPlant Description: This multi stemmed shrub grows upright and mounded in its northern range but it can be found to be sprawling and prostrate in other locations. Its young stems arch gently and are reddish brown and covered in fine, silvery hairs. Older bark shreds in long strips. Dense leaves are dark yellow green, pinnately compound with 5 7 leaflets that are small, elliptical, and covered in small hairs. Terminal (appearing at the ends of branches)