Shrubby Cinquefoil

Dasiphora fruticosa

Hosts 1 caterpillarPollinator plant

No openly-licensed photograph of this species is in the catalogue yet. We show a photo only when we can credit the photographer.

Growing it

When	Flowers June to September
Type	shrub
Sun	Full sun, partial shade
Water	Low
Soil	pH 5.5–8
Hardiness	zone 2–7
Mature height	1 m
Mature spread	1.5 m
Spacing	1 m
Years to maturity	4
Bloom	Jun–Sep
Flower colour	Yellow not verified, a genus-level estimate
In bloom	June July August September
Native to	AB, SK

feather-compound leaves about 2 cm long; a spreading, branching crown

Where it has been recorded

BothSpecimensObservations

258 squares of about 28 km, each holding at least one record. A square is not a claim that the plant grows throughout it, and an unshaded square is unrecorded rather than empty. Darker squares hold more records, which follows roads and towns as much as it follows the plant. 124 herbarium specimens and 1,707 field observations this project may redraw. A filled dot is a pressed sheet somebody can re-examine; a hollow ring is a photograph identified by community agreement. Where the dots are dense is where people have looked, not where the plant is commonest, and empty ground is unsurveyed rather than unoccupied. How this map is made.

Which ecoregions the records fall in

Northern Continental Divide south AB: 1052 records, high confidence
Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 818 records, high confidence
Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 798 records, high confidence
Fescue Grassland south AB: 673 records, high confidence
Western Alberta Upland central AB: 289 records, high confidence
Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 201 records, high confidence
Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 63 records, high confidence
Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 56 records, high confidence
Mid-Boreal Uplands central AB / SK: 43 records, high confidence
Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 29 records, high confidence
Slave River Lowland north AB: 26 records, high confidence
Wabasca Lowland north AB: 4 records, low confidence
Peace Lowland north AB: 3 records, low confidence

These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.

See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.

Documented animals

84 documented relationships.

nectar for

Agriades aquilo Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Andrena crataegi Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Andrena medionitens Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena miranda Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Andrena prunorum Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Anicia Checkerspot Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Aphrodite Fritillary Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Arctic Fritillary Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Atlantis Fritillary Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Batyle suturalis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Black-shouldered Drone Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Black-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Bronze Copper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Brown-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Brown-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Calligrapher Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Campiglossa albiceps Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Central Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Cerceris nigrescens Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Cercyonis oetus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Chionodes viduella Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Clouded Sulphur Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Common Wood-Nymph Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Confusing Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Coral Hairstreak Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Cosmopepla lintneriana Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Cryptic Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Dejongia lobidactylus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Dichelonyx backii Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Drone Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eastern Calligrapher Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Erebia epipsodea Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eristalis anthophorina Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eristalis flavipes Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eristalis stipator Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Euodynerus foraminatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eupeodes americanus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Eupeodes fumipennis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Frigid Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Gray Hairstreak Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Great Golden Digger Wasp Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Halictus confusus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Halictus ligatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Halictus tripartitus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Halictus virgatellus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Hesperia dacotae Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
High Country Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Himmelman's Plume Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Hoplitis fulgida Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Hoplitis robusta Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Hunt's Bumble Bee Packer
Hylaeus leptocephalus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Megachile rotundata Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Megacyllene robiniae Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Melissa Blue Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Milbert's Tortoiseshell Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Nevada Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Northern Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Orange-legged Furrow Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Ornate Checkered Beetle Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Painted Lady Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Pearl Crescent Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Philanthus gibbosus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Red-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Scaeva affinis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Schinia persimilis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Sericomyia militaris Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Silvery Blue Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Snowberry Clearwing Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Sphaerophoria contigua Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Syrphus opinator Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Tharsalea dorcas Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Tharsalea mariposa Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Tricoloured Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Two-ranked Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Vespula atropilosa Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Western Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Yellow Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Yellow-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Yellow-collared Scape Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org

caterpillar host for

Western Tent Caterpillar Specimen records from iNaturalist.org

Also worth knowing

Safety

Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety

Buying it

About $25–$50 per plant (estimate), usually stocked by garden centres. Estimate (shrub default); AB retail as of 2026

Where these numbers came from

Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate