The Poitevin may be any solid color, with minimum of white markings; pied horses cannot be registered. The wide range of coat colors may be partly the result of the many breeds that influenced it: black and seal brown (French: "noir pangaré") may derive from Flemish and Friesian horses, bay roan was probably inherited from the Brabant breed, while chestnut and chestnut roan may result from the Breton influence; gray and bay are also common. Unusually, the Poitevin may also be striped dun, tan-colored with black mane and tail and primitive markings; this may derive from Spanish horses in the ancestry of the Flemish horses brought to Poitou in the seventeenth century. No other French draft horse displays this color.