Geum peckii

Pursh

Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 352. 1813.

Common names: Mountain avens
Conservation concernEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 64. Mentioned on page 60.

Plants subscapose. Stems 7–40 cm, glabrate, sparsely downy, or pilose proximally, downy or pilose distally. Leaves: basal 5–15 cm, blade strongly lyrate-pinnate, major leaflet 1, minor leaflets 4–10, terminal leaflet much larger than minor laterals; cauline 0.8–1.7(–2.5) cm, stipules not evident, blade bractlike, not resembling basal, simple, 3-fid. Inflorescences 1–2(–4)-flowered. Pedicels densely downy, usually eglandular. Flowers erect; epicalyx bractlets 2–3 mm; hypanthium green; sepals spreading, 4–7 mm; petals spreading, yellow, obcordate, nearly orbiculate, or broadly ovate, 9–13 mm, nearly 2 times sepals, apex broadly rounded, emarginate, or irregularly erose. Fruiting tori sessile, glabrous. Fruiting styles wholly persistent, not geniculate-jointed, 6–9 mm, apex not hooked, pilose in basal 1/3, eglandular. 2n = 42.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Alpine meadows, wet spots on rocky cliffs and slopes, montane streamsides, coastal bogs
Elevation: 0–1900 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Geum peckii occurs at 0–10 m in Nova Scotia and at 1500–1900 m in New Hampshire.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Geum peckii"
Joseph R. Rohrer +
Mountain avens +
N.S. +  and N.H. +
0–1900 m +
Alpine meadows, wet spots on rocky cliffs and slopes, montane streamsides, coastal bogs +
Flowering summer. +
Fl. Amer. Sept. +
Conservation concern +  and Endemic +
Acomastylis +, Erythrocoma +, Novosieversia +  and Stylypus +
Geum peckii +
species +