Comarum palustreL.

marsh cinquefoil

WFO wfo-0000985679 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Comarum palustre, photographed by Daniel Seth Jackson
fig. a Daniel Seth Jackson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205797716
Comarum palustre, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205238630
Comarum palustre, photographed by Оксана Серикова
fig. c Оксана Серикова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205729893
Comarum palustre, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. d Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203221171
Comarum palustre, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. e Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205728579
Comarum palustre, photographed by hadynrmurray
fig. f hadynrmurray, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204850402
Comarum palustre, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205229038
Comarum palustre, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. h Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202804865

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Flowering n = 924 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 924 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 48 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Argentina rubra Lam.
  • Comarum angustifolium Raf.
  • Comarum angustifolium var. parvifolium Raf.
  • Comarum arcticum Gand.
  • Comarum digitatum Raf.
  • Comarum palustre subsp. angustifolium (Raf.) Tzvelev
  • Comarum palustre subsp. arcticum (Gand.) Tzvelev
  • Comarum palustre var. ambifaria (Gunnarsson) Tzvelev
  • Comarum palustre var. glandulosum Farw.
  • Comarum palustre var. glutinosum Tzvelev
  • Comarum palustre var. myriotrichum Borbás
  • Comarum palustre var. stipulaceum Carion
  • Comarum palustre var. stipulatum Raf.
  • Comarum palustre var. subglandulosum Borbás
  • Comarum palustre var. villosum Pers.
  • Comarum rubrum Gilib.
  • Comarum tomentosum Raf.
  • Fragaria palustris (L.) Crantz
  • Fragaria pinnatifida Stokes
  • Fragaria pinnatifolia Stokes
  • Pancovia angustifolia Raf.
  • Pancovia digitata Raf.
  • Pancovia palustris Raf.
  • Pancovia palustris (L.) Nieuwl.

and 24 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.