Wood Avens | Plant Information

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Plant Data

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Order:

Rosales

Family:

Rosaceae (Rose)

Also in this family:

Alpine Lady's-mantle, Barren Strawberry, Bearberry Cotoneaster, Bird Cherry, Blackthorn, Bramble, Bullate Cotoneaster, Burnet Rose, Cherry Laurel, Common Agrimony, Common Hawthorn, Common Lady's-mantle, Common Whitebeam, Crab Apple, Creeping Chinese Bramble, Creeping Cinquefoil, Cultivated Apple, Cultivated Pear, Dewberry, Dog Rose, Dropwort, Entire-leaved Cotoneaster, Firethorn, Fragrant Agrimony, Franchet's Cotoneaster, Garden Lady's-mantle, Goatsbeard Spiraea, Great Burnet, Greengage Plum, Hairless Lady's-mantle, Hollyberry Cotoneaster, Japanese Quince, Japanese Rose, Jew's Mallow, Late Cotoneaster, Marsh Cinquefoil, Meadowsweet, Midland Hawthorn, Mountain Ash, Pale Lady's-mantle, Parsley Piert, Portuguese Laurel, Purple-flowered Raspberry, Raspberry, Rock Whitebeam, Salad Burnet, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Silverweed, Southern Downy Rose, Spring Cinquefoil, Sulphur Cinquefoil, Swedish Whitebeam, Tormentil, Wall Cotoneaster, Water Avens, Waterer's Cotoneaster, Wild Cherry, Wild Plum, Wild Strawberry, Willow-leaved Bridewort

Type:

Flower

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Maximum Size:

50 centimetres tall

Habitats:

Hedgerows, riversides, scrub, wasteland, woodland.

Flower:

Yellow, 5 petals

The long stalked, star-shaped flowers appear in loose clusters and are up to 2 cm across in diameter. The sepals turn downwards as the fruit forms. The flowers are similar in appearance to those of Strawberry but are yellow rather than white. The flowers have numerous yellow anthers.

Fruit:

Hooked fruit forming a bur-like head, bronze-tipped.

Leaves:

The leaves are unstalked. The lower ones are pinnate with the terminal leaflet being much the largest. Stem leaves are smaller and trefoil.

Aroma:

The roots smell of cloves when crushed.

Other Names:

Bennet's Root, Colewort, Goldy Star, Herb Bennet, Old Man's Whiskers, St Benedict's Herb, Way Bennet.

Frequency (UK):

Abundant