Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Geum urbanum var. strictum
Common name
Herb Bennet, Common Avens, Avens
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Along streams and on the margins of and in bogs in montane to alpine areas. ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and nearby. Occasionally on the western edge of the ranges/eastern edge of the tablelands.
Notes
Perennial herb to 1 m high, with a short rhizome. Stems reddish green, hairy to hairless. 'Seeds' forming burrs with many reddish hooked spines that stick to clothing. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 4–30 cm long, decreasing in size up the stems, hairy on both surfaces, mainly along the veins, compound with 3–11 leaflets, or dissected, the segments irregularly and deeply toothed. Stipules leaflike, toothed and mainly 3-lobed, 0.75–2 cm long. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals each 4.5–8 mm long. Flowers in few-flowered open clusters, appearing single. Flowering: summer.
Varieties not recognised in NSW.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description (as Geum urbanum): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Geum~urbanum (accessed 13 April 2021)
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