Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Geum virginianum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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Read more about Pale Avens at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum virginianum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Geum virginianum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-002:
Geum virginianum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geum hirsutum
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geum virginianum
COMMON NAME:
Pale Avens, Cream Avens
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gevi4_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm170325_215
March Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120628_332b
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120702_373
July Greenville County SC
Sepals green, lanceolate, 4-7mm long, acute, spreading to reflexed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm120702_376
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120703_404
July Greenville County SC
Flowers about 0.6" wide, the petals much shorter than the sepals, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
COMPARE
flowers of Pale and White Avens
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JK Marlow jkm120827_065
August Greenville County SC
Densely soft-hairy, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120828_077
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120829_134
August Greenville County SC
Principal leaves irregularly pinnate, w mostly ovate to lanceolate segments, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm160827_683
August Henderson County NC
Bearwallow Mountain
Stipules of Geum virginianum much larger than those of G. canadense.
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JK Marlow jkm080921_010
September Greenville County SC
Mid-cauline leaves very coarsely toothed, with 1-5 teeth per cm of margin, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm080921_012
September Greenville County SC
Larger stipules greater than 10mm wide, coarsely toothed or even lobed, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm080921_016
September Greenville County SC
Style persistent, with a tight kink; style above kink 1-2mm long & ~ deciduous, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
Canada Sanicle and Pale Avens
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JK Marlow jkm080921_019
September Greenville County SC
COMPARE
fruit of Galium, Geum and Sanicula species
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JK Marlow jkm080921_030
September Greenville County SC
Calyx reflexed soon after anthesis, per Weakley's Flora.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Geum virginianum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum virginianum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Geum virginianum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-002:
Geum virginianum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geum hirsutum
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geum virginianum
3251
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in NC Mountains & Piedmont, uncommon in SC Mountains, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Habitat: Bottomland forests, moist slope forests, swamp forests, and extending upslope to mesic or even dry sites, especially over mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Basal leaves vary from unlobed to 3-lobed or ternately or pinnately dissected. Stem leaves transition to simple and unlobed.
Basal & alternate
FLOWER:
Summer
Cream to pale yellow
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx/5 bracts
5 petals
More than 25 stamens
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
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 p069