Geum vernum (Rafinesque) Torrey & A. Gray (Q3884)

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Geum vernum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Geum
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Geum vernum (Rafinesque) Torrey & A. Gray
Geum vernum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Geum

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    taxon/id/Geum vernum (Rafinesque) Torrey & A. Gray
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    Geum vernum (Rafinesque) Torrey & A. Gray
    Geum vernum
    (Rafinesque) Torrey & A. Gray
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Rafinesque) Torrey & A. Gray
    benoîte printanière (French)
    spring avens (English)
    heart-leaved avens (English)
    early water avens (English)
    Spring avens (English)
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    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
    Flowering spring.
    moist woods
    disturbed moist areas
    flood plains
    openings
    Plants leafy-stemmed.
    Stems 20–70 cm, pilose or sparsely pilose, hairs septate.
    Leaves: basal 4–27 cm, blade simple or pinnate, leaflets 3–11, terminal leaflet larger;
    cauline 2–7 cm, stipules ± free, 8–25 × 7–12 mm, blade pinnate to 3-foliolate.
    Inflorescences 3–13-flowered.
    Pedicels glandular-downy, becoming glabrate in fruit.
    epicalyx bractlets absent;
    sepals reflexed, 1–3 mm;
    petals spreading, yellow to cream, oblong to elliptic, sometimes obovate, 1–2 mm, equal to or shorter than sepals, apex rounded.
    Fruiting tori on 3–7 mm stipes, glabrous.
    Fruiting styles geniculate-jointed, proximal segment persistent, 1.5–3 mm, apex hooked, nearly glabrous except for few septate-glandular hairs, distal segment deciduous, 0.7–1 mm, nearly glabrous except for short hairs.