Geum canadenseJacq.

white avens

WFO wfo-0001012938 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Geum canadense, photographed by Brandon McCracken
fig. a Brandon McCracken, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205787121
Geum canadense, photographed by Harold Draper
fig. b Harold Draper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205911967
Geum canadense, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. c Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205646812
Geum canadense, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. d Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203404053
Geum canadense, photographed by geosesarma
fig. e geosesarma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202963223
Geum canadense, photographed by Nicholas Stockmaster
fig. f Nicholas Stockmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204459454
Geum canadense, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. g Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204426108
Geum canadense, photographed by Howard Williams
fig. h Howard Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203912853

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,267 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 2,267 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Caryophyllata alba Moench
  • Geum album J.F.Gmel.
  • Geum album var. simplicifolium C.A.Mey.
  • Geum camporum Rydb.
  • Geum canadense f. adenophorum Fernald & Weath.
  • Geum canadense f. glandulosum Fernald & Weath.
  • Geum canadense var. brevipes Fernald
  • Geum canadense var. camporum (Rydb.) Fernald & Weath.
  • Geum canadense var. canadense
  • Geum canadense var. grimesii Fernald & Weath.
  • Geum canadense var. texanum Fernald & Weath.
  • Geum carolinianum Walter
  • Geum glutinosum Pursh ex Lehm.
  • Geum laciniosum Murray
  • Geum meyerianum Rydb.
  • Sieversia caroliniana G.Don

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.