Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Geum vernum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Spring Avens at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum vernum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-005:
Geum vernum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
COMMON NAME:
Spring Avens
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_geve_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_geve_004_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm150423_629
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
1/4" yellowish flowers, with petals nearly as short as the reflexed sepals, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm150423_636
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm150423_640
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Head of achenes elevated above the calyx on a 1-2mm stipe, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
COMPARE
fruit of Galium, Geum and Sanicula species
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JK Marlow jkm150423_644
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm150423_645
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Most leaves dissected into pinnate segments that are deeply incised, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm160421_290
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The presence of a stalk between the calyx and the achene head is diagnostic, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgvernum_swain1b
May Swain County NC
Similar to G. canadense but flowers are yellow or cream, about 0.3" wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Geum vernum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum vernum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-005:
Geum vernum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
2482
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas
Documented growing wild in - NC SC
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon or rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Look for it in seepages, swamps, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Basal and lower stem leaves pinnately dissected or compound, the lateral divisions often again dissected
Basal rosette & alternate
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellowish
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx/5 bracts
5 petals
25-35 stamens
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p265
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p117
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p148
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p068