Geum canadense

Growing to over 1 m. with slender stems usually with short stiff hairs; leaves vary from simple to having 3-5 leaflets. Petioles are long at the base growing shorter up the stem. Most of the lower stem leaves have 3 leaflets. Leaves dimorphic: simple at top, compound-3-parted and toothed at the bottom. Fruit with hooked barbs. Stem: soft white hairs.

Seeds of members of the genus Geum require and cold/moist stratification to germinate (Steffen 1997).

White avens is found in rich woods and prairie throughout Louisiana and the eastern third of Texas.

Alluvial woods, rich woods, swamp forests, moist shaded habitats, ravines, thickets, stream valleys.