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Yellow avens

Geum aleppicum

Family: Rosaceae Genus: Geum Species: aleppicum

Synonyms: Geum aleppicum subvar. dissectum, Geum aleppicum subvar. hirsutum, Geum besseri, Geum intermedium, Geum besserianum, Geum aleppicum f. plenum, Geum aleppicum f. aurantiacoplenum, Geum strictum var. dissectum, Geum strictum var. rugosum, Geum strictum var. hirsutum, Geum strictum subsp. intermedium, Geum strictum, Geum ranunculoides, Geum rugosum, Geum aleppicum var. glabricaule, Geum potaninii, Geum fischeri, Geum aleppicum f. glabricaule, Geum glabricaule, Geum gajewskii, Geum strictum var. bipinnatum, Geum aleppicum var. bipinnatum, Geum aleppicum subvar. rugosum, Geum decurrens, Geum giganteum, Geum aleppicum var. decurrens, Geum aleppicum subsp. strictum, Geum aleppicum var. strictum, Geum strictum var. decurrens, Geum heterophyllum var. elongatum

Yellow avens
Yellow avens

Western Herbalism Properties

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Botanical Description

Geum aleppicum, yellow avens, is an erect perennial herb in the family Rosaceae with a wide circumboreal distribution across temperate North America, Europe, and northern Asia, inhabiting moist meadows, stream banks, forest edges, and roadsides. Plants typically grow 40–100 cm tall from a stout, scaly rhizome, with hairy, branched stems above. Basal leaves are large, pinnately compound with a terminal leaflet much larger than the lateral pairs, and reach 10–30 cm long; cauline leaves are smaller, three-parted to deeply lobed, with conspicuous leafy stipules. The bright yellow, five-petalled flowers are 1.5–2 cm across, with reflexed sepals and numerous stamens, borne on long, slender pedicels in a loose terminal cyme. After flowering, the styles persist on the achenes, elongate, and develop a distinctive hooked tip — these spiny burs cling to fur and clothing and aid dispersal. The fruiting head is a globose, prickly cluster of many achenes.

Native Region: Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Baltic States, Belarus, British Columbia, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Irkutsk, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Masachusettes, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, South European Russi, Tennessee, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tuva, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon

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