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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Rosaceae
Geum laciniatum Murray
rough avens
Geum: an ancient Latin name used by Pliny for this group
laciniatum: Latin for "slashed or lacerated"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 16"-40" tall forb with hairy stems |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted, 1/3" wide, spreading petals much shorter than the sepals; inflorescence of erect flowers on long stalks; blooms May-June |
| Fruit: | hooked, dry seed in a roundish cluster |
| Leaf: | undersides silvery from fine hairs; basal leaves long-stalked, pinnately-divided into lobed and toothed segments, end and side segments mostly alike; upper leaves 3-parted |
| Habitat: | moist to wet |
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