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Wood avens
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WOOD AVENS Geum urbanum FamiIy ROSACEAE On the borders of woods, in copses, and on shady hedgebanks, the Avens is abundant. It is a perennial, with a short, creeping rootstock, frcm which spring the radical leaves, the blade of which is broken up into distinct lobes and toothed leafiets, widely separated, and varying in size and shape, the terminal leafiet very large, the lowest ones very small. The stipules are large and leafy. The fiowering-stem may reach a length of three feet, bearing erect, soli tary, bright yellow fiowers on lon g branching footstalks. The calyx has five long, pointed lobes, with five pointed bracts. The five petals spread themselves out flat, the calyx lobes showing green between them. The crowd of stamens may not easily be numbered; the carpels, too, are numerous, and develop into a head of nutlets, each with a sharp, curved hook at its tip, by which they catch in fur and feather, and so get distributed by bird and beast. Flowering chiefiy between June and August.

 

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It is really the uppermost of the five petals, but, owing Wood avens to the flower-stalk invariably bending over near the summit, it appears to us always as the lowest. Flowering from March to May. Common in copse, on hedgebank and roadside Wood avens throughout the country, as far north as Sutherland. From a perennial rootstock, with short runners or barren shoots, rise the very erect two - edged stems, pale brown and smooth, to avens Wood a height of two or three feet, branching in the upper part. The oblong leaves are clean-cut without stalks.
The stamens are a crowd round the central cluster of avens Wood many-bearded styles, which afterwards elongate into plumy tails and jointly form the " Old Man's Beard." It is the only British member of the genus; but a large number Wood avens of foreign species, with larger flowers, are cultivated in our gardens. Flowering from July to September. The Greater Celandine may be found in the hedgerow and on waste ground near avens Wood habitations. It is not even distantly related to the Lesser Celandine. The former is realIy a kind of Poppy while the latter is included with the Buttercups.

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