Geum molle

Geum molle is a species of flowering plant of the genus Geum (avens) in the family Rosaceae. A perennial herbaceous plant found on meadows, it is native to the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula and Italy. It blooms with yellow flowers between June and August.[2]

Geum molle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Geum
Species:
G. molle
Binomial name
Geum molle
Vis. & Pančić
Synonyms[1]

Geum gasparrinii Pignatti

Distribution

The plant is found in several of the mountains of southern Bosnia and Herzegovina,[3] Montenegro,[4] Kosovo (the Prokletije mountain range),[5] northernmost Greece, eastern and northern Albania, the west and north of the Republic of Northern Macedonia,[3] and western Bulgaria (at elevations of 1000–1800 m in central and western Stara Planina, Vitosha Kraishte, Osogovo, Rila, Pirin and the western Rhodopes).[2][6] Within Italy, it grows in scattered localities in the central and southern Apennines: in the Umbria-Marche Apennines, in Abruzzo, the Alburni in Campania, near Monte Arioso in Basilicata, and on La Sila in Calabria.[7]

Hybrids

The hybrid Geum molle × Geum rivale, sometimes known as Geum pseudomolle Pant., is found in eastern Montenegro's Crna Planina,[4] western Bulgaria's Vitosha,[2] and probably elsewhere. Geum molle × Geum coccineum has been noted in Vitosha.[2]

References
  1. "Geum molle Vis. & Pančić". World Flora Online. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  2. Asenov, I. (1973). "Omajniče – Geum L.". In Vǎlev, Stoju; Asenov, Ivan (eds.). Flora na Narodna Republika Bǎlgarija (in Bulgarian). Vol. V. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. pp. 201–5. [Mention of Kraishte, which does not appear in Asenov 1973.]
  3. Kurtto, Arto; Lampinen, Raino; Junikka, Leo (2004). Atlas florae Europaeae, distribution of vascular plants in Europe. 13: Rosaceae (Spiraea to Fragaria, excl. Rubus). Helsinki: Committee for mapping the flora of Europe and Societas Biologica Fennica. p. 148. ISBN 978-951-9108-14-8.
  4. Caković, Danka; Stešević, Danijela (2021). Katalog vaskularne flore Crne Gore (in Montenegrin). Vol. II. Podgorica: Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts. p. 159. ISBN 978-86-7215-488-7.
  5. Gajić, M. (1972). "Rod Geum L.". Flora SR Srbije (in Serbian). Vol. 4. Beograd: Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti. pp. 78–79.
  6. Asyov, B.; Petrova, A.; Dimitrov, D.; Vassilev, R. (2012). Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora : Distribution Maps and Floristic Elements (4 ed.). Sofia: Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation. p. 351.
  7. Del Prete, C.; Donini, A. M.; Garbari, F. (1980). "Quisquiliae floristicae Apenninae 1-5". Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali - Memorie Serie B (in Italian). 87: 78–79. [Including Geum gasparrinii Pignatti.]
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