Geum rivale, SE: Humleblomster, DE: Bach-Nelkenwurz,
NL: Knikkend nagelkruid, UK: Water Avens

Scientific name:		Geum rivale L.
Swedish name:		Humleblomster
German name:		Bach-Nelkenwurz
Nederlandse naam:		Knikkend nagelkruid
English name:		Water avens, Purple avens
Family:		Rosaceae, Rose family, Rosväxter

Date Picture Taken: July 19, 2010

Life form:		Perennial
Stems:		Up to 80cm keight; straight, branching, pubescent.
Leaves:		Leaves on stem with 3 toothed leaflets. Lower leaves pinnately compound with more than 3 leaflets. Apical leaflet very large and broad relative to other leaflets. Opposite large pairs of leaflets intermixed with small pairs.
Flowers:		Flowers purple to red-purple. Sepals fused in a globular container with 5 projecting, sharp-pointed sepal lobes. Fruit without long, feathery hairs. Flowers usually in groups of 3.
Flowering Period:		May-July
Fruits:		Achene with hooked hairs, several together.
Habitat:		Woods, thickets, fresh water, bogs, marshes, pastureland and meadows

Date Picture Taken: June 21, 2010 Derivation of the botanical name: Geum, from the Greek geno, "to yield an agreeable fragrance". When freshly dug, the root has a clove-like aroma. It was called "the Blessed Herb" in earlier times and the common name "Herb Bennet" is a possible corruption of that. rivale, rival, "of or belonging to a stream." The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. Pliny the Elder(23-79 CE), Natural History, Book XXVI:XXI: "Geum has little roots, slender, blackish and with a pleasant smell". Location: Hammarstrand; Date Picture Taken: June 21, 2010 Date Picture Taken: June 19, 2010 Date Picture Taken: July 22, 2011