Geum peckii - (image 1 of 4)
Taxonomy
Family: Rosaceae
Habitat
Damp alpine slopes and meadows in New Hampshire, coastal bogs in Nova Scotia.
Associates
Distribution
Restricted to the White Mountains of NH and two sites in Nova Scotia. Reports from VT and ME are apparently erroneous.
Morphology
Herbaceous perennial from a coarse rhizome; stems 14-40 cm, nearly smooth below, more hairy above; basal leaves with a rounded-reniform terminal leaflets 5-10 cm wide, shallowly 5-7-lobed, sharply and irregularly serrate, truncate to subcordate at the base, with 0-6 smaller, laciniate leaflets rarely over 1 cm long; cauline leaves similar to the lateral leaflets of the basal leaves; sepals triangular, twice as long as the bractlets; petals yellow, 0.8-1.5 cm, spreading; mature styles 8-10 mm, hairy about half their length.
Notes
Flowers July to August
Wetland indicator: OBL
A rare endemic species that is closely related to the morphologically indistinguishable G. radiatum Michx., an endemic of the southern Appalachian states of NC and TN.
References
Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of
Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY
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