White avens
Geum canadense Jacq.
- light
- Any light
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Rosaceae
Formerly Caryophyllata alba, Geum album, Geum camporum, Geum carolinianum, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. Canada to WC. & E. U.S.A., C. & S. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Sun or shadeRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 46 cm to 76 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- root
- GEUCAN
- Russian
- Гравилат канадский
- Czech
- kuklík kanadský
- French
- benoîte du Canada
- Chinese (China)
- 加拿大路边青, 高山水杨梅
- Chinese
- 加拿大水楊梅, 加拿大路邊青
- Finnish
- valkokellukka
- Polish
- kuklik kanadyjski
- Slovak
- kuklík kanadský
- Ukrainian
- Гравілат канадський
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Geum canadense (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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