DNA sequence data suggests they are more closely related to Chamaerhodos and Dasiphora than to species such as Creeping Cinquefoil (P. reptans) which make of the bulk of Potentilla.

The white hovertruck sang onwards into the ruined roads of South London that were full of colombine, ragged robin, foxglove, golden rain, dog rose, danewort, ivy, creeping cinquefoil, Venus's Comb, dead-nettle, shepherd's purse and dandelion, then turned towards Greenwich where Jerry's cruiser was moored.

The change from initial "t" to "p" seems to have been influenced by terms such as poterium - Latin for the related burnets (Sanguisorba) -, or propedila and similar words used for the creeping cinquefoil P. reptans in the now-extinct Dacian language, as attested in Latin herbals.

The European cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans), often used medicinally."

Potentilla reptans (I)

The larvae feed on Agrimonia eupatoria, Fragaria vesca, Potentilla anserina, Potentilla erecta and Potentilla reptans.

The larvae feed on Potentilla alba, Potentilla aurea, Potentilla crantzii, Potentilla erecta, Potentilla reptans and Potentilla tabernaemontani.

The larvae feed on Achillea, Agrimonia, Alchemilla vulgaris, Filipendula, Fragaria vesca, Geum rivale, Potentilla reptans, Rubus fruticosus and Spiraea douglasii.