Shrub · Rosaceae
Shrubby cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa · includes its varieties and subspecies
Shrubby cinquefoil is recorded as native to 28 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 446 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Key facts · USDA PLANTS
Shrubby cinquefoil at a glance
- Native in
- 446 counties, across 28 states and territories
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 4b PLANTS minimum temperature −28°F
- Mature height
- 2.5 ft PLANTS mature height
- Light and water
- Sun to part shade Low water use
Estimated cold hardiness: zone 4b. PLANTS gives a minimum temperature of −28°F; zone 4b winters bottom out at −25°F, the coldest half-zone that stays within that limit.
Shrubby cinquefoil is recorded as native to 28 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 446 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Counties where it is native
The 15 counties with the most ZIP codes among the 446 where it is listed.
Native counties by state
- Alaska 18 counties
- Arizona 2 counties
- California 16 counties
- Colorado 39 counties
- Connecticut statewide record
- Idaho 16 counties
- Illinois 8 counties
- Indiana 20 counties
- Maine 9 counties
- Massachusetts 8 counties
- Michigan 53 counties
- Minnesota 20 counties
- Montana 39 counties
- Nevada 8 counties
- New Hampshire 8 counties
- New Jersey 6 counties
- New Mexico 11 counties
- New York 31 counties
- North Dakota 6 counties
- Ohio 21 counties
- Oregon 9 counties
- Pennsylvania 1 county
- South Dakota 5 counties
- Utah 24 counties
- Vermont 10 counties
- Washington 13 counties
- Wisconsin 29 counties
- Wyoming 16 counties
Growing traits
Values from the PLANTS characteristics record of a variety (DAFRF). “Not recorded” means PLANTS has no value; nothing here is estimated except the zone.
Growth
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 2.5 ft
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Shape
- Rounded
- Lifespan
- Long
- Active growth period
- Spring and Summer
Light and water
- Shade tolerance
- Intermediate (sun to part shade)
- Moisture use
- Low water use
- Drought tolerance
- Low
- Tolerance of waterlogged soil
- None
- Precipitation range
- 16 to 40 in per year
Soil
- Soil textures
- Coarse, medium and fine
- pH range
- 5 to 8
- Lime (CaCO₃) tolerance
- Medium
- Salinity tolerance
- Medium
- Fertility requirement
- Medium
- Minimum root depth
- 18 in
Climate
- Minimum temperature
- −28°F
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 4b and warmer
- Minimum frost-free days
- 180
- Fire tolerance
- Low
Flowers, leaves and fruit
- Flower color
- Yellow
- Showy flowers
- Yes
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Foliage color
- Green
- Showy in fall
- No
- Keeps leaves
- No
- Fruit color
- Not recorded
Other
- Toxicity
- None
- Nitrogen fixation
- None
- Nursery availability
- Routinely Available
- Family
- Rosaceae
- PLANTS symbol
- DAFR6
Source & data date
- Source
- USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
- Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
- USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
- Citation
- USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
- Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
- Data date
- Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
- Scope
- Dasiphora fruticosa (PLANTS symbol DAFR6), including 1 variety or subspecies folded into the species.
- Method
- A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources