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Accession Data:

Geum urbanum L.

  • Common Name: Wood Avens, Colewort
  • Family: Rosaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Europe

  • USDA Zone: 5a-9b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201600025
  • Source: Bonn BG Index Seminum
  • Accession Date: 02-03-2016
  • Bench: 2308 - Nearctic
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 05-06-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid I
  • Order: Rosales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • SubFamily: Rosoideae
  • Tribe: Colurieae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017

References (internal):

  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Denmark / Finland / Great Britain / Ireland / Norway / Sweden / Austria / Belgium / Czechoslovakia / Germany / Hungary / Netherlands / Poland / Switzerland / Corse / France / Portugal / Spain / Albania / Bulgaria / Greece / Italy / Romania / Sicilia / Turkey-in-Europe / Yugoslavia / Belarus / Baltic States / Central European Russia / East European Russia / North European Russia / Northwest European Russia / Ukraine / West Siberia / North Caucasus / Transcaucasus

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, February 03, 2016.
  2. Geum urbanum at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Monday, June 20, 2016.
  3. Geum urbanum at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Wednesday, October 26, 2016.

data regenerated on Tue, 06 May 2025 15:48:02 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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W/C = Wild Collected
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