Yellow Avens

Yellow Avens

Geum aleppicum

Rose Family - Rosaceae

Flowers with five petals (about 1 inch wide) and many stamens associated with a central greenish cone. (Photographed - late June)

An erect herb (1 to 4' tall) with solitary or branching clusters of bright yellow flowers on hairy stalks and stems.

Basal leaves stalked and divided into 5 to 7 major leaflets interspersed with varying numbers of small leaflets. Terminal leaflets wedge-shaped at the base and often lobated. Upper leaves unstalked.

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