Wood Avens
Geum urbanum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Rosaceae
Also called Herb Bennet, Herb bennet, Wood avens
Formerly Bernoullia media, Caryophyllata officinalis, Caryophyllata urbana, Geranium pseudomolle, and 12 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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. Asia and Iran, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from PFAF, one source
- Height
- 61 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from PFAF, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from PFAF, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Geel nagelkruid, geel nagelkruid
- root
- GEUURB, Macall coille, Mapgoll
- German
- Echte Nelkenwurz, Gewöhnliche Nelkenwurz
- Russian
- Гравилат городской
- Finnish
- kyläkellukka
- French
- Benoîte commune, Benoîte urbaine, benoîte commune
- Swedish
- Nejlikrot
- Czech
- kuklík městský
- Norwegian Bokmål
- kratthumleblom, Kratthumleblom
- Danish
- Feber-nellikerod, Feber-Nellikerod
- Spanish
- Hierba de San Benito, Hierba Bennet
- Italian
- Erba benedetta, Garofanaia, Cariofillata comune
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
- PFAF, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Geum urbanum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.