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
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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 north of Mexico, vol. 9 (2014)
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 north of Mexico, vol. 9
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p149
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p069
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