Geum pentapetalum (L.) Makino
 
FamilyRosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae
SynonymsSieversia pentapetala (L.) Greene, Geum anemonoides (Pall.) Willd., Sieversia anemonoides (Pall.) Willd., Dryas anemonoides Pall., Dryas pentapetala L.
DescriptionStems from long, woody, branched caudex; basal leaves glabrous, pinnate with 5-7 leaflets, lowest leaflets linear or cleft in apex, the rest deeply lobed to serrate; stem puberulent, stem leaves reduced, the upper linear; bractlets linear; calyx lobes ovate with attenuated apex; petals white, twice as long as calyx; nutlets pubescent; style elongating in fruit, glabrous at tip.
EcologyWet places.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.