Cinquefoil (disambiguation)
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Cinquefoil means "five-leaved", from the French cinque feuilles ("five leaves") and ultimately the Latin
quinquefolium. It can refer to:
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quinquefolium. It can refer to:
- PotentillaPotentillaPotentilla is the genus of typical cinquefoils, containing about 500 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the rose family Rosaceae. They are generally Holarctic in distribution, though some may even be found in montane biomes of the New Guinea Highlands...
(typical cinquefoils), a plant genus in the rose family (RosaceaeRosaceaeRosaceae are a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including about 2830 species in 95 genera. The name is derived from the type genus Rosa. Among the largest genera are Alchemilla , Sorbus , Crataegus , Cotoneaster , and Rubus...
) - Several other Rosaceae genera formerly included in Potentilla:
- ComarumComarumComarum is a genus of plants formerly included with the typical cinquefoils . It contains one or two species:* Comarum palustre – Marsh Cinquefoil, Swamp Cinquefoil* Comarum salesowianum Comarum is a genus of plants formerly included with the typical cinquefoils (Potentilla). It contains one...
- DasiphoraDasiphoraDasiphora is a genus of three species of shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae, native to Asia, with one species D. fruticosa , with a circumpolar range across the entire cool temperate Northern Hemisphere. In the past, the genus was normally included in Potentilla as Potentilla sect...
(woody cinquefoils) - DrymocallisDrymocallisDrymocallis is a genus of plants formerly included with the typical cinquefoils . It contains three species known or suspected to be protocarnivorous, but more cinquefoils might eventually be moved here:...
(Tall Cinquefoil) - SibbaldiopsisSibbaldiopsisSibbaldiopsis is a genus in the plant family Rosaceae. , the Three-toothed Cinquefoil is the single representative of this genus. Systemic phylogenetic work has placed S. tridentata closer to Aphanes and Sibbaldia than to Potentilla .S...
(Three-toothed Cinquefoil)
- Comarum
- A pattern in heraldry resembling a cinquefoil flower; see Charge (heraldry)#Plants
- The cinquefoil knotCinquefoil knotIn knot theory, the cinquefoil knot, also known as Solomon's seal knot or the pentafoil knot, is one of two knots with crossing number five, the other being the three-twist knot. It is listed as the 51 knot in the Alexander-Briggs notation, and can also be described as the -torus knot...
, a knot whose outline resembles a cinquefoil flower.