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Avens (Geum)
The avens (Geum) are perennial flowering plants. They are usually evergreen, and the flowers (white, yellow, orange, or red) generally bloom from spring to early summer. Some hybrids have been created that bloom on and off throughout the growing season, making them a popular ornamental plant.
Lifespan
Perennial
Key Facts About Avens
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Attributes of Avens
Plant Height
45 cm
Spread
30 cm
Leaf type
Deciduous
Scientific Classification of Avens
How to Grow and Care for Avens
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The avens genus, popularly known as Avens, requires moderately rich and well-drained soil with a neutral to slightly acidic pH. These perennials prefer full sun to partial shade, with a temperate climate best suiting their needs. Over-watering should be avoided to prevent root rot. Avens plants are often challenged by slugs, snails and diseases like powdery mildew. In terms of seasonal care, during spring, they should be watered more frequently and pruned for flowering, whereas in winter, mulching helps protect against frost.
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8 most common species：
Wood avens
Wood avens (Geum urbanum) is genetically related to the more commonly recognizable rose. This perennial plant is native to Europe and the Middle East. In folklore, the wood avens is considered to have spiritual properties and is seen as capable of driving away evil energy.
White avens
White avens makes an attractive mass planting or ground cover. The evergreen foliage resembles that of a strawberry plant and the small white flowers bloom throughout the summer months. The seeds from the white avens may be troublesome, as they cling to pet fur and clothing.
Water avens
Water avens thrives in damp areas like wet meadows and riversides. Dainty purple and orange blossoms dangle and nod from their delicate purple stems. It is said that the roots can be boiled to make a chocolate-like drink.
Yellow avens
This wildflower blooms across the US and Canada in woodlands, meadows, and lake shores. Its root smells like clove and is a traditional medicine among some indigenous peoples. Some European traditions suggested that the yellow avens could ward off the devil. The leaves are edible.
Large-leaved avens
Large-leaved avens (Geum macrophyllum) is a plant species that bears sticky fruit. Large-leaved avens can become stuck in clothing and pet fur. This weed is known best for its fruit, which is covered with spiky, velcro-like hooks that readily attach to anything that it touches.
Geum coccineum
Geum coccineum has a wonderful reputation in gardening for being so easy to grow and yet so rewarding bloom-wise. Also, it is useful for providing pollinators with an attractive food source. In its natural habitat, it is found along streams, growing in wet meadows, or at higher elevations, enriching the landscape with its profuse orange and red flowers.
Alpine avens
Alpine avens is an evergreen plant who holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit in the UK. It is a hardy plant perfect for a rock garden supplied with constant moisture under which it will thrive. It may be susceptible to pests such as aphids, sawflies, or red spider mites.
Prairie Smoke
Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) is a perennial plant that blooms in late spring to early summer with clusters of nodding, pinkish-red flowers. Flowers are closed like buds and occur in threes. Bees force their way in to pollinate the flowers, but once pollinated, the nodding buds turn upright before fading away. Wispy, feathery seed heads replace flowers, changing from pink to golden as the seeds mature and dry.
All Species of Avens
Wood avens
Wood avens
Wood avens (Geum urbanum) is genetically related to the more commonly recognizable rose. This perennial plant is native to Europe and the Middle East. In folklore, the wood avens is considered to have spiritual properties and is seen as capable of driving away evil energy.
White avens
White avens
White avens makes an attractive mass planting or ground cover. The evergreen foliage resembles that of a strawberry plant and the small white flowers bloom throughout the summer months. The seeds from the white avens may be troublesome, as they cling to pet fur and clothing.
Water avens
Water avens
Water avens thrives in damp areas like wet meadows and riversides. Dainty purple and orange blossoms dangle and nod from their delicate purple stems. It is said that the roots can be boiled to make a chocolate-like drink.
Yellow avens
Yellow avens
This wildflower blooms across the US and Canada in woodlands, meadows, and lake shores. Its root smells like clove and is a traditional medicine among some indigenous peoples. Some European traditions suggested that the yellow avens could ward off the devil. The leaves are edible.
Large-leaved avens
Large-leaved avens
Large-leaved avens (Geum macrophyllum) is a plant species that bears sticky fruit. Large-leaved avens can become stuck in clothing and pet fur. This weed is known best for its fruit, which is covered with spiky, velcro-like hooks that readily attach to anything that it touches.
Geum coccineum
Geum coccineum
Geum coccineum has a wonderful reputation in gardening for being so easy to grow and yet so rewarding bloom-wise. Also, it is useful for providing pollinators with an attractive food source. In its natural habitat, it is found along streams, growing in wet meadows, or at higher elevations, enriching the landscape with its profuse orange and red flowers.
Alpine avens
Alpine avens
Alpine avens is an evergreen plant who holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit in the UK. It is a hardy plant perfect for a rock garden supplied with constant moisture under which it will thrive. It may be susceptible to pests such as aphids, sawflies, or red spider mites.
Prairie Smoke
Prairie Smoke
Prairie Smoke (Geum triflorum) is a perennial plant that blooms in late spring to early summer with clusters of nodding, pinkish-red flowers. Flowers are closed like buds and occur in threes. Bees force their way in to pollinate the flowers, but once pollinated, the nodding buds turn upright before fading away. Wispy, feathery seed heads replace flowers, changing from pink to golden as the seeds mature and dry.
Barren strawberry
Barren strawberry
Barren strawberry is an attractive plant due to its intense yellow blooms and vibrant green foliage. The species is cultivated widely as an ornamental for ground cover.
Creeping avens
Creeping avens
The creeping carnation root grows as a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of growth of 5 to 10 centimeters and the fruit time of up to 30 cm at flowering. It has a strong rhizome and up to 1 meter long foothills. The rosette leaves are pinnate with mostly three- to five-part leaves. The stem leaves are smaller and fiederteilig.
Barren strawberry
Barren strawberry
The barren strawberry (Geum fragarioides) is a flowering plant that is commonly used in gardening as a ground cover or undercover. It loves shady garden sites, and it's prized for its non-aggressive nature.
Rough avens
Rough avens
Geum laciniatum (commonly named rough avens or hairy herb-bennet) is a member of the family Rosaceae. It is a perennial forb, native to eastern North America.
Spring avens
Spring avens
Spring avens is a spring ephemeral commonly found in Eastern North American woodlands. It exhibits a basal rosette of fuzzy, pinnately lobed leaves and tall, wiry stems that support small, yellow five-petaled flowers. Spring avens thrives in moist, shaded soils, and its delicate blooms are among the early nectar sources for pollinators.
Avens 'Cosmopolitan'
Avens 'Cosmopolitan'
With semi-double flowers that boast creamy petals tinged with a soft blush pink, avens 'Cosmopolitan' presents an enchanting display from late spring to early summer. The blossoms sit atop slender, wiry stems, rising from a low mound of dark green, lobed leaves. Thriving in temperate garden environments, avens 'Cosmopolitan' flourishes in well-drained soil and partial to full sun, attracting pollinators while resisting deer.
Avens 'Wet Kiss'
Avens 'Wet Kiss'
Avens 'Wet Kiss' is a sport cultivar of the famous hybrid cultivar avens 'Mai Tai' (Geum 'Mai Tai'). It features more vibrant flowers than its parent. The flowers are semi-double and they come in a beautiful shade of vermilion. Burgundy red stems and young buds are equally attractive as the blossoms.
Avens 'Fire Storm'
Avens 'Fire Storm'
Avens 'Fire Storm' is an improved version of the Avens (Geum spp.) cultivar known as 'Fireball.' It was bred to produce even more flowers than its parent plant — it blooms profusely for several months, creating a flame-like mass of bright orange-red flowers, hence the provocative cultivar name.
Avens 'Fire Opal'
Avens 'Fire Opal'
The avens 'Fire Opal' is a cultivar from the Rosaceae family. This perennial has fire-colored (reddish-orange) petals that earned it the name, avens 'Fire Opal'. It has received a merit award from the Royal Horticultural Society. These plants are often planted in rock gardens or used for borders.
Avens 'Mai Tai'
Avens 'Mai Tai'
Avens 'Mai Tai' is an avens (Geum spp.) cultivar selected for its attractive flowers whose varying colors can be compared to the Mai Tai drink. The semi-double flowers open vermilion, but they eventually fade to attractive shades of apricot, peach, or pink. The cultivar blooms for three weeks during the late spring and early summer, producing masses of blossoms at once.
Boris's avens 'Borisii'
Boris's avens 'Borisii'
Boris's avens 'Borisii' has prolific cup-shaped blooms that are a stunning terracotta orange-red color, making it one of the darker colored varieties of the species. Blooming occurs from late spring to mid-summer. This is a cultivar of Boris's avens (Geum coccineum) which typically boasts pure bright orange flowers instead of orange-red. This plant has no insect or disease problems and can be grown to form a lovely carpet in a cottage-themed garden.
Water avens 'Leonard's Variety'
Water avens 'Leonard's Variety'
The water avens 'Leonard's Variety' is a more compact form of the water avens, forming clumps as it grows, with semidouble flowers that are a copper-pink in color and that flare out as they bloom. This cultivar was created for its appearance, size, and for its long flowering period. This last factor makes it appreciated in gardens with cool, damp areas where other plants struggle to last.
Avens 'Mrs J. Bradshaw'
Avens 'Mrs J. Bradshaw'
Avens 'Mrs J. Bradshaw' is a herbaceous perennial geum with striking, fluffy red blooms. Although the origin of the name is unknown, it’s easy to see why gardeners like this beautiful cultivar. In addition to sporting lovely blossoms, avens 'Mrs J. Bradshaw' attracts butterflies and repels pests and diseases
Avens 'Alabama Slammer'
Avens 'Alabama Slammer'
Avens 'Alabama Slammer' is a showy avens that stands out from the parent plant for its golden double flowers with ruffled petals. These are far more striking than the single-colored, unruffled petals of wild avens and make this plant a great choice for many garden placements. This hybrid is named after the well-known cocktail, which has a similar golden color.
Avens 'Flore Plena Sunrise'
Avens 'Flore Plena Sunrise'
Avens 'Flore Plena Sunrise' is indeed reminiscent of a sunrise with its large golden double flowers that bloom throughout spring and summer. It is a cultivar of the Geum genus and works well in borders, beds, and containers. The name translates to 'full flower sunrise,' which is a perfect way to describe the colors of these blooms.
Avens 'Dark and Stormy'
Avens 'Dark and Stormy'
Avens 'Dark and Stormy' is an Avens (Geum spp.) cultivar selected for the amazing bicolor effect of its flowers. The ruffled single and semi-double flowers start red-orange and eventually fade to attractive apricot color, creating bicolor effect in the garden. A vigorous grower, this disease-resistant cultivar blooms profusely for several months.
Avens 'Fireball'
Avens 'Fireball'
Avens 'Fireball' is an avens (Geum spp.) cultivar, selected for attractive orange-red flowers adorned with red edges. This cultivar blooms profusely, creating masses of vibrant flowers that resemble flames, hence the cultivar name, 'Fireball'. The blossoms are semi-doubled and they're carried on tall stems.
Mountain avens
Mountain avens
Mountain avens is a rare perennial herb that boasts a delicate charm with its rosette of toothed, basal leaves and slender, hairy stems. Most noted for its solitary, nodding pinkish-white flowers that bloom in late spring, mountain avens thrives in the moist, shaded environments of its limited high-elevation habitats in the Northeastern United States. Its adaptability to the cool microclimate underlies its survival, making it both distinctive and vulnerable.
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Dracaena
Dracaena are popular house plants that are easy to grow. They can tolerate low-light conditions and require little watering. Their leaves range from variegated to dark green. Their characteristic traits include woody stems that grow slowly but offer a striking appearance for small spaces such as apartments or offices.
Fig trees
Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.
Brambles
Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.
Maples
The popular tree family known as maples change the color of their leaves in the fall. Many cultural traditions encourage people to watch the colors change, such as momijigari in Japan. Maples popular options for bonsai art. Alternately, their sap is used to create maple syrup.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.
Nightshades
Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.
Roses
Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.
Oaks
Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.
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Avens
Geum
The avens (Geum) are perennial flowering plants. They are usually evergreen, and the flowers (white, yellow, orange, or red) generally bloom from spring to early summer. Some hybrids have been created that bloom on and off throughout the growing season, making them a popular ornamental plant.
Lifespan
Perennial
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Key Facts About Avens
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Attributes of Avens
Plant Height
45 cm
Spread
30 cm
Leaf type
Deciduous
Scientific Classification of Avens
How to Grow and Care for Avens
Feedback
The avens genus, popularly known as Avens, requires moderately rich and well-drained soil with a neutral to slightly acidic pH. These perennials prefer full sun to partial shade, with a temperate climate best suiting their needs. Over-watering should be avoided to prevent root rot. Avens plants are often challenged by slugs, snails and diseases like powdery mildew. In terms of seasonal care, during spring, they should be watered more frequently and pruned for flowering, whereas in winter, mulching helps protect against frost.
How to Water Avens?
What Are the Sunlight Requirements for Avens?
How to Propagate Avens?
How to Plant Avens?
Exploring the Avens Plants
Feedback
8 most common species：
Wood avens
Wood avens (Geum urbanum) is genetically related to the more commonly recognizable rose. This perennial plant is native to Europe and the Middle East. In folklore, the wood avens is considered to have spiritual properties and is seen as capable of driving away evil energy.
White avens
White avens makes an attractive mass planting or ground cover. The evergreen foliage resembles that of a strawberry plant and the small white flowers bloom throughout the summer months. The seeds from the white avens may be troublesome, as they cling to pet fur and clothing.
Water avens
Water avens thrives in damp areas like wet meadows and riversides. Dainty purple and orange blossoms dangle and nod from their delicate purple stems. It is said that the roots can be boiled to make a chocolate-like drink.
Yellow avens
This wildflower blooms across the US and Canada in woodlands, meadows, and lake shores. Its root smells like clove and is a traditional medicine among some indigenous peoples. Some European traditions suggested that the yellow avens could ward off the devil. The leaves are edible.
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All Species of Avens
Wood avens
White avens
Water avens
Yellow avens
Large-leaved avens
Geum coccineum
Alpine avens
Prairie Smoke
Barren strawberry
Creeping avens
Barren strawberry
Rough avens
Spring avens
Avens 'Cosmopolitan'
Avens 'Wet Kiss'
Avens 'Fire Storm'
Avens 'Fire Opal'
Avens 'Mai Tai'
Boris's avens 'Borisii'
Water avens 'Leonard's Variety'
Avens 'Mrs J. Bradshaw'
Avens 'Alabama Slammer'
Avens 'Flore Plena Sunrise'
Avens 'Dark and Stormy'
Avens 'Fireball'
Mountain avens
More Popular Genus
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Dracaena
Dracaena are popular house plants that are easy to grow. They can tolerate low-light conditions and require little watering. Their leaves range from variegated to dark green. Their characteristic traits include woody stems that grow slowly but offer a striking appearance for small spaces such as apartments or offices.
Fig trees
Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.
Brambles
Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.
Maples
The popular tree family known as maples change the color of their leaves in the fall. Many cultural traditions encourage people to watch the colors change, such as momijigari in Japan. Maples popular options for bonsai art. Alternately, their sap is used to create maple syrup.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.
Nightshades
Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.
Roses
Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.
Oaks
Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.
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