Silverweed
Silverweed - Potentilla anserina
Short, hairy plant with long creeping and rooting runners. Leaves in tufts, pinnate, with 15 to 25 oblong, sharply toothed leaflets, silvery hairy, particularly beneath. Flowers yellow, 15 to 20 mm solitary, the petals twice the length of the sepals.
The flowers alone are similar to many other species but combined with the leaves it provides a unique combination.
Grassy habitats, pathways, roadsides.
May to August.
Perennial.
Very common throughout Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 592 of the 617 tetrads.
 Old Fosse Sapcote SP 4920 9144 (taken 3.6.2006).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
03 June 2006
David Nicholls
Cribbs Meadow
16 May 2014
HAPeacock
St Marys Mills
19 August 2012
HAPeacock
River Soar - St Marys Mills
25 May 2012
David Nicholls
Thornton Reservoir
05 June 2012
HAPeacock
St Marys Mills
19 August 2012
Graham Calow
Highcross Road, Claybrook Magna
20 April 2016
Alan Semper
Harby canal
19 May 2013
 Old Fosse Sapcote SP 4920 9144 (taken 3.6.2006).JPG)
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Agromyza sulfuriceps
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Agromyza sulfuriceps mines the leaves of various species in the Rosaceae family including Roses, Meadowsweet, Strawberry, Silverweed, Cinquefoil, Raspberry and Burnets. The mine starts as a long corridor, its initial part often along the leaf margin or a thick vein. Rather suddenly the corridor widens into a broad blotch. The corridor contains much frass, often in two distinct patches or lines.