Potentilla pusilla, the spring cinquefoil or spotted cinquefoil, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the rose family (Rosaceae).

The name P. verna was misapplied to this species; as originally described by Linnaeus, it actually refers to the alpine cinquefoil (P. crantzii).

Its typical five-fingered leaves and — in early spring — five-petalled yellow flowers are borne on low-lying stems.

As its common name implies, in most of its range it is one of the first cinquefoils to bloom.

[2] Thus it can be used for rock gardens, providing bright bunches of yellow when few other plants are blooming.