Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (4/24/22):
Geum canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
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Read more about White Avens at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum canadense var. canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Geum canadense
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-001:
Geum canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geum canadense
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 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 jkm220626_8733
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 (4/24/22):
Geum canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geum canadense var. canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Geum canadense
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-07-001:
Geum canadense
FAMILY
Rosaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geum canadense
609
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
Habitat: Moist slope forests, bottomland forests, swamp forests, tidal swamps, rarely in submesic forests, 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 (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