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Geum virginianum Linnaeus. Common name: Cream Avens. Phenology: Jun-Aug; Jul-Nov. Habitat: Bottomland forests, moist slope forests, swamp forests, and extending upslope to mesic or even dry sites, especially over mafic rocks. Distribution: MA and NY west to IN, south to SC and TN.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, F, FNA9, G, GW2, Il, K4, Mi, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, Tat, Tn, Va, W, WV, Bolle (1933), Robertson (1974); > Geum flavum (Porter) E.P.Bicknell — S13; > Geum hirsutum Muhl. ex Link — S; > Geum virginianum L. — S, S13. Basionym: Geum virginianum L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Geum virginianum - FNA9

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC
  • Midwest: FACU
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FACU

Heliophily ⓘ: 5

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect-ascending perennial of bottomland forests, moist slope forests, swamp forests, and extending upslope to mesic or even dry sites, especially over mafic rocks.

Stems: Stems sometimes branched above, hairy.

Leaves: Basal and lower alternate leaves on petioles with leaflike stipules at the base, varying from simple and oval to pinnately divided/lobed into 3-7 toothed/lobed segments; upper stem leaves smaller, lance-shaped to oval, and simple or 3-lobed; all leaves hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters, the branches sparsely hairy; each flower creamy white, ¼-¾ in. wide, with 5 widely spaced, spreading, oblong-elliptic petals, 5 larger, spreading but soon reflexed, lance-triangular sepals, and a dense cluster of pistils and stamens in the center.

Fruits: Fruit a round, bristly head of achenes.

Comments:

Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect-ascending perennial of bottomland forests, moist slope forests, swamp forests, and extending upslope to mesic or even dry sites, especially over mafic rocks.

stems: Stems sometimes branched above, hairy.

leaves: Basal and lower alternate leaves on petioles with leaflike stipules at the base, varying from simple and oval to pinnately divided/lobed into 3-7 toothed/lobed segments; upper stem leaves smaller, lance-shaped to oval, and simple or 3-lobed; all leaves hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters, the branches sparsely hairy; each flower creamy white, ¼-¾ in. wide, with 5 widely spaced, spreading, oblong-elliptic petals, 5 larger, spreading but soon reflexed, lance-triangular sepals, and a dense cluster of pistils and stamens in the center.

fruits: Fruit a round, bristly head of achenes.

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native range: eastern North America



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