Geum virginianum Linnaeus (Q3885)

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Geum virginianum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Geum
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Geum virginianum Linnaeus
Geum virginianum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Geum

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    taxon/id/Geum virginianum Linnaeus
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    Geum virginianum Linnaeus
    Geum virginianum
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    benoƮte de Virginie (French)
    pale avens (English)
    cream avens (English)
    Cream or Virginia or pale avens (English)
    1 reference
    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.
    1 reference
    Scoggan, H.J. 1978-79. The Flora of Canada. Parts 1-4. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Publications in Botany 7. 4 volumes.
    Flowering summer.
    forests
    river bottoms
    dry uplands
    rocky slopes
    oak-hickory woods
    0ā€“700 m
    Plants leafy-stemmed.
    Stems 25ā€“110 cm, puberulent and hirsute to densely hirsute, some hairs 2ā€“2.5 mm.
    Leaves: basal 12ā€“25 cm, blade simple or pinnate, major leaflets 3ā€“5, plus 0ā€“4 minor basal ones, terminal leaflet slightly larger than major laterals;
    cauline 4ā€“15 (ā€“23) cm, stipules Ā± free, 11ā€“48 Ɨ 6ā€“35 mm, blade 3-foliolate or simple and 3-lobed to unlobed.
    Inflorescences 3ā€“14-flowered.
    Pedicels puberulent, sometimes with scattered hairs, eglandular.
    epicalyx bractlets 1ā€“1.5 mm;
    sepals spreading but soon reflexed, 3ā€“6 mm;
    petals spreading, cream, oblong to elliptic, (1.5ā€“) 2ā€“3.5 mm, shorter than sepals, apex rounded.
    Fruiting tori sessile, densely bristly, hairs 1ā€“2.3 mm.
    Fruiting styles geniculate-jointed, proximal segment persistent, (3ā€“) 4.5ā€“7 mm, apex hooked, glabrate, distal segment deciduous, 1ā€“2 mm, pilose in basal 1/2, hairs much longer than diam. of style.