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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Rosaceae
Geum aleppicum Jacq.
yellow avens
Geum: an ancient Latin name used by Pliny for this group
aleppicum: of Aleppo
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 20"-40" tall forb; stems stout and very hairy |
| Flower: | yellow, 5-parted, 1/2" wide, spreading petals only slightly longer than the sepals; inflorescence of erect flowers on long stalks; blooms May-July |
| Fruit: | about 200 or more hooked, dry seed |
| Leaf: | pinnately-divided, 3-parted, or undivided; toothed, end and side segments of basal leaves mostly alike |
| Habitat: | wet; meadows, woods, forests, swamps |
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