White Geum. Oeum album. 



Found along roads, and moist and shady thickets, from June to 

 September. 



The zigzag branching stalk varies from 10 to 18 inches in height, 

 and bears few leaves ; it is tough, coarse fibred, and rough with hairs ; 

 it rises from a foot-tuffet of leaves. Of a brownish green color. 



The root-leaves are large, and 3-divided into round, unequal, parts, 

 with a round-scalloped margin, that is often wavy ; and set on long 

 hairy stems, — along which are sometimes scattered other indeterminate 

 little leaflets ; the upper leaves are simple, and narrow, or deeply 3-cleft, 

 with uneven sharp-notched margins, and set on long stiff stems, which 

 clasp the stalk with a pair of 3-notched wings ; a few small leaves near 

 the flowers are set close on the stalk clasping with small narrow 

 wings. The surface is hairy, texture loose, and coarse ; the color a 

 crude green ; the arrangement alternate. 



The flower has 5 petals, oval shaped, with fine-pointed bases ; the 

 texture is thin and delicate, the edges curly ; clear white in color ; the 

 stamens are fine, tipped with yellow ; the many green pistils are 

 gathered in a small conical head ; the calyx is 5-parted, and green, with 

 white edges ; between the divisions is found a tiny thread-like point. 

 The flowers are set on slender, leafy stems, which are terminal, and 

 from the angles of the leaves. 



The petals are so widely spread that the calyx is seen, from above, 

 as a fine-pointed green star ; after they fall the head develops long, 

 wiry, green hooks, with which to grapple the heedless traveller. The 

 growth is angular, and weedy. 



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