This is a large genus, including rightly popular shrubs that flower all summer, as well as many smaller plants, suitable for the rock garden. They are known as cinquefoils, although not all have the leaves divided into five leaflets. Sibbaldia and Sibbaldiopsis are closely related, both having the tips of the leaves divided into three broad teeth.

Potentilla atrosanguinea var. argyrophylla makes a clump of slightly hairy leaves, rather like those of a strawberry, with stems carrying a succession of flowers, orange-yellow, brighter and deeper orange at the centre.