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- noun Plural form of
potentilla .
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Examples
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Within certain limits the ground grows greener as one ascends, and we passed upwards among primulas, asters, a large blue myosotis, gentians, potentillas, and great sheets of edelweiss.
Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004
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Large yellow gentians, mulleins, the nearly black and the purple orchids, vetches of all colours, the Alpine clover with four or five enormous flowers in a head instead of fifty little ones, the Astrantias (like a circular brooch made up of fifty gems each mounted on a long elastic wire and set vibrating side by side), the sky-blue forget-me-nots, and the golden potentillas, are usually components of the Alpine meadow.
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The sod in most places is exceedingly fine and silky and free from weeds and bushes; while charming flowers abound, especially gentians, dwarf daisies, potentillas, and the pink bells of dwarf vaccinium.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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Within certain limits the ground grows greener as one ascends, and we passed upwards among primulas, asters, a large blue myosotis, gentians, potentillas, and great sheets of edelweiss.
Among the Tibetans 1867
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Cut back hardish in March, potentillas will take their time to leaf up, stay small and flower rather late in the season.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But if merely groomed lightly the odd leggy shoot shortened and a bit of old, woody, less-productive undercarriage removed, potentillas will start flowering profusely as early as
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Cut back hardish in March, potentillas will take their time to leaf up, stay small and flower rather late in the season.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But if merely groomed lightly the odd leggy shoot shortened and a bit of old, woody, less-productive undercarriage removed, potentillas will start flowering profusely as early as
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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