Geum aleppicum

Aleppo or yellow avens, Yellow Avens

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Aleppo avens is a native perennial found in northern California Ranges near Mount Shasta and the Modoc Plateau in mountain meadows at elevations of 1,000 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in small clusters with 3 to 7 blooms, each petal 4 to 9 millimeters long and ovate-round. Growing with robust stems 30 to 120 centimeters tall, it forms distinctive tufted clumps that dry to a dark black-green color. Its compound leaves extend 10 to 40 centimeters long, featuring 1 to 4 leaflets on each side with a terminal leaflet typically 5 to 10 centimeters long and sharply three-lobed. The fruit develops as a small 4 to 5 millimeter body with a hooked style that has a few bristles at its base.

Habitat: Meadows

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1000-1600 m

Bioregions: n CaRH (Mount Shasta), MP

California counties: Lassen, Siskiyou, Modoc

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.