Geum montanum
Alpine Avens
About the plant
What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.
- Habit
- perennialPlants of the World Online
- Flower
- YellowRead from the photograph on this page
- Native range
- Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France and elsewhereGBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.
Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Worth knowing
- Alpine avens holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. In traditional Austrian medicine its roots were drunk as a tea for rheumatism, gout, infections and fever. Wikipedia: Geum montanum
Protocol
DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993Difficulty Moderate
Sow and cover
Temperature: 70°F 21°C Light: light
No stated waiting before sowing. Then 35 days to germinate.
60% germination in 35 days.
How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.
Germination trials
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