Here, it was maybe one foot wide, and about that tall, though the blooms were taller.

It isn't supposed to be a very long lived plant. Nice while I had it, but not worth while to be replacing every two or three years.

It mostly sprawls, the flowers are gorgeous as pictured but very small. It looks good threaded through other plants but in and of itself not great. As above, it went to that great garden in the sky.

Yep, these little potentillas have a certain charm but tend to overall rattiness very quickly. It is a scrambler, with blooms appearing in the axils of ever-lengthening stems: the flowers are not that generous so it is always much better tucked in with some other more solid plants so you can periodically swoop on individual flowers, exclaim for a moment or two then move on. And while they will return, they are basically just nestled around the more flamboyant salvias as background spots of colour but not really good enough to stand alone..

It has more of a woody stem and its growth habit is kind of rangey. Mine was lovely the first 3 years, but in the last 3 has just about petered out. The tiny flowers are so pretty, that I will replace my 2 plants for the right price. Not easy to find locally though. Catalog shipping adds to much to the cost.

Here it is listed as Potentilla thurberi Monarch's Velvet. I had the straight species P. thurberi. It was actually the best standing-up potentilla of them all. The problem with this plant was that the flowers are just too small and too few at a time to be effective for that dark colour.(one of those plant you have to look for to notice)

Thanks so much! Now I know how to site it. If it sprawls or scrambles that explains the width stated by the Missouri Botanic Garden. Of course the picture on the tag shows it covered with flowers, as did most of the shots I found online. I love red, so plants that are red (or wine, or similar) tend to land on my cart even if I know nothing about them.

It was only a quart, and not expensive. IâÂÂm glad I didnâÂÂt pay more. Cinquefoil is probably just the common name: both were on the tag.