Here are cress, blue violets, potentilla, and, in the damp of the willow fence-rows, white false asphodels.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin
Ishmael sat upon the dry grass, where the tiny yellow stars of the creeping potentilla gleamed up at him through the soft dusk, and lay almost too idle for thought.
"Secret Bread"
F. Tennyson Jesse
potentilla comes from the Latin potens, as alluding to the medicinal virtues of the species.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie