Scientific Name

Potentilla anserina

Common Name

Silverweed. Other: Blithran, Bread & butter, Fairdays, Fishbones, Goosegrass, Mashcorns, Huoorgrass, Silverfern, Tansy, Murriks.

Type

Perennial

Description

Low growing perennial with yellow flowers June to August and much divided leaves. This silver is produced by hairs on leaf.

Habitat

Everywhere, waste places, roadsides, damp meadows <1400ft.

Folklore

Treatment of internal disorders. Bathing wounds. Placed in walkers shoes. Roots edible. Cultivated in W.Scotland, before the potato.

Soil Type

All

Soil Fertility

Poor

Soil Moisture

Damp

Soil pH

All

Sunlight

Full sun

Success

Overground runners. Resistant to flooding. Many seeds.

Importance

Very

Cultural Control

Cultural (1.2, 1.4) Prevention (2.6, 2.7, 2.8)

Chemical Control

(3.1 .1 a) or (3.2.2)