Potentilla fragarioides

Potentilla fragarioides, the strawberry-leaf cinquefoil or Asian barren strawberry, is a low perennial herb in the family Rosaceae native to temperate East Asia, occurring across China, Korea, Japan, eastern Russia (Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin), and parts of Mongolia and the Russian Far East. It grows 10-30 cm tall from a stout, woody rhizome and a rosette of pinnately compound basal leaves with 3-7 ovate to obovate, coarsely toothed leaflets 1-5 cm long that closely resemble the leaves of a true strawberry, hence the epithet fragarioides. Stems and petioles are softly spreading-pubescent. The inflorescence is a loose, few-flowered cyme on slender, ascending stems bearing yellow, five-petaled flowers 1-1.5 cm across; petals are notched and slightly longer than the sepals. The fruit is a dry aggregate of small achenes seated on a flat receptacle (not a fleshy strawberry). It flowers in spring on grassy slopes, forest margins, and ditch banks. The whole plant is used in traditional Chinese folk medicine.