Scarlet Avens - Geum quellyon
Clump forming plant to 60 cm with hairy, dark green, pinnate basal leaves. The flowers are usually red or orange but sometimes yellow. Many cultivars occur, some being double forms.
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Usually found as an escape from cultivation and close to habitation.
Flowers May and June
Perennial
Not well recorded in the wild in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire, and is not listed in the current VC55 checklist (Jeeves, 2011).
Graham Calow
Springwell Lane, Whetsone
05 May 2016
Graham Calow
Springwell Lane, Whetsone
05 May 2016
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Species profile
- Common names
- Scarlet Avens
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 05/05/2016 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 05/05/2016 (Calow, Graham)
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