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Encyclopedia > Avens
For the river, see Geum River.
Geum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
Genus: Geum
Species
About 50, including:
  • G. canadense White Avens
  • G. macrophyllum Yellow Avens
  • G. montanum Alpine Avens
  • G. reptans Creeping Avens
  • G. rivale Water Avens
  • G. triflorum Purple Avens
  • G. urbanum Wood Avens or Herb Bennet
  • G. virginianum Virginia Avens

Geum is a genus of about 50 species of perennial herbaceous plants in the rose family Rosaceae, native to Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and New Zealand. They are closely related to Potentilla, Dryas and Fragaria.




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Avens (508 words)
Avens is an astringent herb, used principally for problems affecting the mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract.
Avens has been used in a lotion or ointment as a soothing remedy for hemorrhoids.
Avens reputedly has a mild quinine-type action in lowering fever.
botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Avens - Herb Profile and Information (1475 words)
The stem-leaves are placed alternately and have at their base two stipules (leaf-like members that in many plants occur at the junction of the base of the leaf with the stem).
The flowers, which are in bloom all the summer and autumn, often as late as December, are less conspicuous than the round fruitheads, which succeed them, which are formed of a mass of dark crimson achenes, each terminating in an awn, the end of which is curved into a hook.
In modern herbal medicine Avens is considered useful in diarrhoea, dysenteries, leucorrhoea, sore throat, ague, chills, freshcatarrh, intermittent fevers, chronic and passive haemorrhages, gastric irritation and headache.
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