Geum triflorum Pursh (Q3896)

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Geum triflorum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Geum
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Geum triflorum Pursh
Geum triflorum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Geum

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    taxon/id/Geum triflorum Pursh
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    Geum triflorum Pursh
    Geum triflorum
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    three-flowered avens (English)
    old man's whiskers (English)
    prairie smoke (English)
    purple avens (English)
    lionsbeard (English)
    torchflower (English)
    benoîte à trois fleurs (French)
    Prairie smoke (English)
    old man’s whiskers (English)
    torchflower (English)
    three-sisters (English)
    Mexico
    Plants subscapose.
    Stems 10–45 cm, downy to pilose, hairs 0.1–3 mm, sometimes septate-glandular.
    Leaves: basal 4–30 cm, blade interruptedly pinnate, major leaflets 10–18, alternating with 6–16 minor ones gradually increasing in size distally, terminal leaflet slightly larger than major laterals;
    cauline 1–5 cm, stipules adnate to leaf, indistinguishable from leaflets/lobes, blade bractlike, not resembling basal, opposite, pinnate-pinnatifid.
    Inflorescences (1–) 3–5 (–7) -flowered.
    Pedicels densely woolly, sometimes glandular.
    Flowers nodding, erect in fruit;
    epicalyx bractlets 6–15 mm;
    hypanthium maroon, purple, or greenish mottled with purple, may turn pale-brown in fruit;
    sepals erect, 7–14 mm;
    petals erect, cream to yellowish suffused with pink or purple, or purple-veined, elliptic, 7–13 mm, shorter to longer than sepals, apex rounded to obtuse.
    Fruiting styles wholly persistent or distal 3–7 mm tardily deciduous, not or inconspicuously geniculate-jointed, 15–70 mm, apex not or occasionally ± hooked, pilose to apex or nearly so.