General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Semi-evergreen
Fruit: Edible to birds
Flowers: Inconspicuous
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Uses: Erosion control
Groundcover
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Stolons and runners
Offsets
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • White Avens
  • Geum
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Geum canadense
  • Synonym: Geum canadense var. brevipes
  • Synonym: Geum canadense var. camporum
  • Synonym: Geum canadense var. grimesii

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Location: Northern New Jersey
Date: 2022-06-26
Location: White Pine nature preserve, Chatham county, North Carolina
Date: February 10, 2023
White Avens #370; RAB p. 543, 97-7-1; LHB p. 529, 95-39-?; AG p.
Location: Northeastern, Texas
Date: 2020-06-03
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2020-06-12
Location: Illinois, US
Date: 2020-06-18
Location: Hiking Trail In Fairfax :-)
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (April 2022)
Location: Fairfax, VA | July, 2022
Date: 2022-07-23
Location: Fairfax, VA | March, 2023
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2015-06-23
Pops up every few years in my yard.
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2015-06-23
Pops up every few years in my yard.
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2015-06-23
Pops up every few years in my yard.
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2015-06-23
Pops up every few years in my yard.

photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher

photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher

photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher

Date: 2010-05-30

Date: 2010-06-14

Date: 2008-09-04

photo credit: R. A. Nonenmacher
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2017-08-05
Location: My yard in Arlington, Texas.
Date: Winter 2012
Emerging plants in winter.
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