Cinquefoil Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans), the creeping cinquefoil, is a low perennial of the rose family, Rosaceae, native to grassland, roadsides, and waste ground across Europe, western Asia, and North Africa, and introduced to North America. It spreads by long, slender red runners that root at the nodes, like a strawberry plant, forming mats close to the ground. The leaves are long-stalked and divided into five, occasionally seven, toothed leaflets arranged like fingers on a hand, which is what the French-derived name describes. Solitary, bright yellow, five-petaled flowers 2 to 3 centimeters across appear on thin stalks from June to September. The root is dark and astringent. We extract the dried herb.