NameThatPlant.net: Geum aleppicum

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Geum aleppicum FAMILY Rosaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Yellow Avens at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum aleppicum FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Geum aleppicum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Geum aleppicum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-004:

Geum aleppicum FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Geum aleppicum var. strictum

COMMON NAME:
Yellow Avens

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gest2_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Geum aleppicum FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum aleppicum FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Geum aleppicum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Geum aleppicum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-004:
Geum aleppicum FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Geum aleppicum var. strictum

3252

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: floodplain forests, bogs, and boggy meadows, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
Basal, lower, and median leaves simple and pinnately dissected or lobed or compound, then the divisions deeply lobed or dissected
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer
Bright yellow
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx/5 bracts
5 petals
More than 25 stamens

FRUIT:
Summer
Achene

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