This name refers to a species complex of woody deciduous shrubs growing to about 1.5 m tall. Leaves pinnate, with 5-9 linear-lanceolate leaflets. Epicalyx lobes variable. Flowers sometimes semi-double, mostly yellow or white but several other colours represented in the cultivars.
Other listed cultivars include 'Sunset' and 'Herzblut'.
Northern temperate regions.
Source: (2002). Rosaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Potentilla fruticosa 'Primrose Beauty'
Branches more or less pendent; leaves grey-hairy; flowers pale yellow with darker centre.
Potentilla fruticosa 'Red Ace'
To over 1m tall. Flowers vermilion above, pale yellow below, fading.
Potentilla fruticosa 'Red Robin'
Flowers red.
Potentilla fruticosa 'Tangerine'
Low-growing, with 7 small leaflets. Flowers orangish or occasionally yellow.