Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Geum geniculatum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Bent Avens at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum geniculatum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-006:
Geum geniculatum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
COMMON NAME:
Bent Avens
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmggeniculatum_gfm1
June Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain
Nodding cup-shaped yellowish flowers with numerous stamens and pistils, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmggeniculatum_gfm2
June Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain
Hairy greenish-maroon acute-tipped sepals about same length as petals, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmggeniculatum_gfm3
June Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmggeniculatum_habitgfm
June Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain
Flowers in a weakly paniculate cyme, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmggeniculatum_lfgfm
June Avery County NC
Grandfather Mountain
Basal leaves with 3 large terminal divisions, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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L.L. (Chick) Gaddy llg_geumgeniculatum
July? NC-TN
Petals almost truncate at apex, gradually narrowed to prominent claws, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Geum geniculatum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum geniculatum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-006:
Geum geniculatum
FAMILY
Rosaceae
2481
Forb
Perennial
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare, though locally fairly common
Look for it in seeps, seepy boulderfield forests, grassy balds, cliff bases, banks of cool streams up to about 5m wide, at high to moderate elevations on Grandfather Mtn, the Roan Mtn massif, and Rich Mtn, 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 leaves with 3 large terminal divisions, the rachis with 1-4 lateral pairs of smaller divisions. Stem leaves trifoliolate or simple and 3-lobed.
Basal rosette & alternate
FLOWER:
Summer
Pinkish/Whitish/Lavender
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx/5 bracts
5 petals
Numerous stamens
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p157
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p149
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p068