Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Geum canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about White Avens at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum canadense var. canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-001:
Geum canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
COMMON NAME:
White Avens
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JK Marlow jkm100626_106
June Avery County NC
The Roan Highlands
Sepals green, lanceolate, 4-7mm long, acute, spreading to reflexed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm130628_340342
June Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
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JK Marlow jkm130628_352
June Cherokee County NC
Murphy River Walk
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JK Marlow jkm190604_8994
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190604_8996
June Greenville County SC
Flowers about 0.5" wide; 5 rounded petals about equal in length to sepals, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
flowers of Pale and White Avens
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JK Marlow jkm190604_9053
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm150827_899b
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Aggregation of achenes in dry, bristly heads with hook-like appendages, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
COMPARE
fruits that are an aggregate of achenes
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JK Marlow jkm160818_619
August Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
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JK Marlow jkm180825_4185
August Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm180825_4186
August Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Lower leaves have 3 ovate toothed leaflets, upper leaves usually simple, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm180825_4187
August Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm210824_3064
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm210824_3069
August Greenville County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Geum canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum canadense var. canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-001:
Geum canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
609
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in SC Coastal Plain)
Look for it in moist slope forests, bottomland forests, swamp forests, 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 vary from unlobed to 3-lobed or ternately or pinnately dissected. Stem leaves transition to simple and unlobed.
Basal & alternate (reduced upward)
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
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!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p232
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p156
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p117
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p148
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p068
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p240