Geum aleppicum in Genus Geum

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Internal ID	UUID64403f0045581732587760
Scientific name	Geum aleppicum
Authority	Jacq.
First published in	Icon. Pl. Rar. 1: 10 (1781)

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Common products:
Geum aleppicum is cultivated and sold as an ornamental perennial. Nurseries market pot‑grown or bare‑root plants for rock gardens, mixed wild‑flower plantings, and perennial borders. The product is supplied as whole plants for garden display and, less frequently, as seed for hobby sowing. (≈100 words)

Properties relevant to use:
The species is a hardy, herbaceous perennial forming a basal rosette of leaves and erect flowering stems 30–60 cm tall. It tolerates USDA hardiness zones 3–7, thrives in full sun to partial shade, and prefers well‑drained, loamy to sandy soils. Flowering occurs from late spring to early summer, producing bright yellow‑orange heads that persist for several weeks, making the plant attractive for extended visual display. Plants spread slowly by short rhizomes, providing a low‑maintenance, non‑aggressive groundcover. The foliage is relatively pest‑free and tolerates moderate drought once established. (≈140 words)

Sustainability and sourcing:
Geum aleppicum is widely distributed across Europe, Asia and North America and is listed as Least Concern (or not evaluated) in major regional red‑lists, indicating no significant conservation threat. Commercial supply is obtained almost exclusively from cultivated nursery stock; wild harvesting is minimal and not reported. Propagation by division or seed under standard horticultural practices ensures sustainable production without pressure on wild populations. (≈80 words)

Standards and regulation:
International trade of ornamental plants, including Geum aleppicum, is governed by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) and associated national phytosanitary regulations (e.g., the EU Plant Passport system and United States Department of Agriculture quarantine requirements). These frameworks require phytosanitary certification for imports and exports to prevent pest and disease spread. (≈70 words)

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Scientific name	Authority	First published in
Geum strictum	Aiton	Hort. Kew. [W. Aiton] 2: 217. 1789
Geum strictum var. bipinnatum	Batalin	; 1893 93 1893
Geum aleppicum var. bipinnatum	(Batalin) Hand.-Mazz.	Symbolae sinicae ; 1929 523 1933
Geum potaninii	Juz.	Fl. URSS 10: 255 (1941)
Geum glabricaule	Juz.	Fl. URSS 10: 616 (1941)
Geum ranunculoides	Ser.	Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 2: 138 (1824)
Geum decurrens	Rydb.	N. Amer. Fl. 22: 404 (1913)
Geum sachalinense	H.Lév.	Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 281 (1910)
Geum besserianum	Sweet	Hort. Brit. , ed. 2: 190 (1830)
Geum vidalii	Franch. & Sav.	Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 335 (1878)
Geum rugosum	Desf.	Tabl. École Bot. , ed. 3: 409 (1829)
Geum aleppicum var. glabricaule	(Juz.) Vorosch.	Florist. Issl. Razn. Raionakh SSSR : 177 (1985)
Geum gajewskii	Smejkal	Preslia 31: 10 (1959)
Geum intermedium	Besser ex M.Bieb.	Fl. Taur.-Caucas. 1: 411. 1808 ; misapplied name
Geum giganteum	Schur	; 1895 161 1895
Geum inclinatum	Schleich.	Verh. Mitth. Siebenbürg. Vereins Naturwiss. Hermannstadt 10: 158 (1859)
Geum aleppicum subsp. strictum	(Fernald) R.T.Clausen	Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem. 291: 9 (1949)
Geum aleppicum var. strictum	Fernald	Rhodora 37: 294 (1935)
Geum strictum	[Soland.]	Hort. Kew. [W. Aiton] 2: 217. 1789
Geum strictum var. decurrens	(Rydb.) Kearney & Peebles	J. Washington Acad. Sci. 29: 481 (1939)
Geum hispidum	auct.German.boreal.et Boruss. ex Scheutz	Prodromus monographiae georum ; 1870 29 1870
Geum heterophyllum	Desf.	Tabl. École Bot. , ed. 3: 294 (1829)
Geum besseri	Fisch. ex Walp.	Repert. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) ii. 47.
Geum aleppicum f. glabricaule	(Juz.) Kitag.	Neolin. Fl. Manshur. : 367 (1979)
Geum aleppicum f. aurantiacoplenum	Yen C.Yang & L.H.Zhuo	Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(1): 168 (1983)
Geum aleppicum f. plenum	Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang	Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(1): 167 (1983)
Geum aleppicum var. decurrens	(Rydb.) W.A.Weber	Phytologia 41: 487 (1979)
Geum heterophyllum var. elongatum	Ser.	Prodr. 2: 550 (1825)
Geum strictum var. dissectum	Fr. ex Scheutz	Prodr. Monogr. Geor. : 29 (1870)
Geum strictum var. hirsutum	Scheutz	Prodr. Monogr. Geor. : 30 (1870)
Geum strictum subsp. intermedium	Nyman	Consp. Fl. Eur. : 230 (1878)
Geum strictum var. rugosum	Desf. ex Scheutz	Prodr. Monogr. Geor. : 29 (1870)
Geum aleppicum subvar. dissectum	(Fr. ex Scheutz) Asch. & Graebn.	Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 6(1): 879 (1905)
Geum aleppicum subvar. hirsutum	(Scheutz) Asch. & Graebn.	Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 6(1): 880 (1905)
Geum aleppicum subvar. rugosum	(Desf. ex Scheutz) Asch. & Graebn.	Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 6(1): 879 (1905)
Geum aleppicum var. bipinnatum	(Batalin) F.Bolle ex Hand.-Mazz.	Symb. Sin. 7: 523 (1933)
Geum fischeri	Besser ex Fisch. & Trautv.	Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 3: 36 (1837)

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Language	Common/alternative name
English	yellow avens
Arabic	حشيشة المبارك الحلبية
Azerbaijani	hələb çınqılotu
Belarusian	Панікніца алепская
Czech	kuklík alepský
Estonian	püstmõõl
Finnish	idänkellukka
Hungarian	hegyi gyömbérgyökér
Icelandic	reskidalafífill
Japanese	オオダイコンソウ
Latvian	austrumu bitene
Russian	Гравилат алеппский
Russian	Глухой ладан
Russian	Гравилат гладкостебельный
Russian	Гравилат прямой
Russian	Гравилат торчащий
Russian	Дикий репей
Russian	Жабная трава
Russian	Обносная трава
Swedish	rysk nejlikrot
Chinese	路邊青
Chinese	兰布政
Chinese	路边青（草本水杨梅、水杨梅）
Chinese	草本水杨梅
Chinese	五气朝阳草
Chinese	路边青
Chinese	水杨梅

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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- Caucasus
  - North Caucasus
  - Transcaucasus
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  - China North-central
  - China South-central
  - China Southeast
  - Inner Mongolia
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  - Kuril Islands
  - Magadan
  - Primorye
  - Sakhalin
- Siberia
  - Altay
  - Buryatiya
  - Chita
  - Irkutsk
  - Krasnoyarsk
  - Tuva
  - West Siberia
  - Yakutskiya
- Western Asia
  - Turkey

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- Indian Subcontinent
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Database	ID/link to page
World Flora Online	wfo-0000990001
Canadensys	8763
USDA Plants	GEAL3
Tropicos	27800066
KEW	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30094401-2
The Plant List	rjp-1834
Open Tree Of Life	77545
Observations.org	118273
NCBI Taxonomy	714473
NBN Atlas	NBNSYS0200002239
Nature Serve	2.153140
IPNI	30094401-2
iNaturalist	77265
GBIF	5369685
Freebase	/m/0bn__x
WisFlora	3702
EPPO	GEUAL
EOL	632509
Elurikkus	4902
Calflora (Californian flora)	3809
USDA GRIN	17514
Wikipedia	Geum_aleppicum
Plantarium	17548

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Scientific Literature Top

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Short impact on soil microbiome of a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens QST713 based product that correlates with higher potato yield across USA

Adamo I, Acin-Albiac M, Röttjers S, de Prado DR, Benito BM, Zamora J, Godara R, García-Jiménez B, Jiang-Rempel P, Cline LC, Acedo A

Front Plant Sci

12-Mar-2024

PMCID:	PMC10967024
doi:	10.3389/fpls.2024.1332840
PMID:	38545390

Response of serum biochemical profile, antioxidant enzymes, and gut microbiota to dietary Hong-bailanshen supplementation in horses

Ding J, Gu B, Meng J, Hu M, Wang W, Liu J

Front Microbiol

20-Feb-2024

PMCID:	PMC10912594
doi:	10.3389/fmicb.2024.1327210
PMID:	38444806

Syringa reticulata potently inhibits the activity of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease

Hao Z, Liu Y, Guan W, Pan J, Li M, Wu J, Liu Y, Kuang H, Yang B

Biochem Biophys Rep

26-Dec-2023

PMCID:	PMC10873874
doi:	10.1016/j.bbrep.2023.101626
PMID:	38371528

Stability in the leaf functional traits of understory herbaceous species after 12-yr of nitrogen addition in temperate larch plantations

Yan T, Wang L, Wang P, Zhong T

Front Plant Sci

05-Dec-2023

PMCID:	PMC10728480
doi:	10.3389/fpls.2023.1282884
PMID:	38116147

The effects of precipitation change on urban meadows in different design models and substrates

Jiang Y, Yuan T

Sci Rep

23-Nov-2023

PMCID:	PMC10667351
doi:	10.1038/s41598-023-44974-y
PMID:	37996501

The Distribution Characteristics of Vegetation in the Subrange of the Altai Mountains, Xinjiang

Cao Q, Wei Y, Li W, Feng Y, Abduraimov OS

Plants (Basel)

20-Nov-2023

PMCID:	PMC10675357
doi:	10.3390/plants12223915
PMID:	38005812

The complete chloroplast genome of Geum longifolium (Maxim.) Smedmark 2006 (Rosaceae: Colurieae) and its phylogenomic implications

Guo JJ, Zhang ZP, Khasbagan, Soyolt, Li QQ

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour

18-Oct-2023

PMCID:	PMC10586075
doi:	10.1080/23802359.2023.2270212
PMID:	37869570

Endomicrobiome of in vitro and natural plants deciphering the endophytes-associated secondary metabolite biosynthesis in Picrorhiza kurrooa, a Himalayan medicinal herb

Tamang A, Swarnkar M, Kumar P, Kumar D, Pandey SS, Hallan V

Microbiol Spectr

09-Oct-2023

PMCID:	PMC10715050
doi:	10.1128/spectrum.02279-23
PMID:	37811959

The most polyphagous insect herbivore? Host plant associations of the Meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (L.)

Thompson V, Harkin C, Stewart AJ

PLoS One

04-Oct-2023

PMCID:	PMC10602594
doi:	10.1371/journal.pone.0291734
PMID:	37792900

Metabolites of Geum aleppicum and Sibbaldianthe bifurca: Diversity and α-Glucosidase Inhibitory Potential

Kashchenko NI, Olennikov DN, Chirikova NK

Metabolites

25-May-2023

PMCID:	PMC10304466
doi:	10.3390/metabo13060689
PMID:	37367847

Plant Growth-Promoting Microorganism Pseudarthrobacter sp. NIBRBAC000502770 Enhances the Growth and Flavonoid Content of Geum aleppicum

Ham SH, Yoon AR, Oh HE, Park YG

Microorganisms

17-Jun-2022

PMCID:	PMC9231079
doi:	10.3390/microorganisms10061241
PMID:	35744759

Market survey on the traditional medicine of the Lijiang area in Yunnan Province, China

Zhang M, Li H, Wang J, Tang M, Zhang X, Yang S, Liu J, Li Y, Huang X, Li Z, Huang L

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed

23-May-2022

PMCID:	PMC9125852
doi:	10.1186/s13002-022-00532-w
PMID:	35606860

Complete chloroplast genome of Geum aleppicum (Rosaceae)

Zhang P, Wang L, Lu X

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour

24-Jan-2022

PMCID:	PMC8788369
doi:	10.1080/23802359.2021.2024461
PMID:	35087938

Effects of large herbivore grazing on relics of the presumed mammoth steppe in the extreme climate of NE-Siberia

Reinecke J, Ashastina K, Kienast F, Troeva E, Wesche K

Sci Rep

21-Jun-2021

PMCID:	PMC8217226
doi:	10.1038/s41598-021-92079-1
PMID:	34155242

Ethnobotanical study on herbal market at the Dragon Boat Festival of Chuanqing people in China

Wang Q, Zhao L, Gao C, Zhao J, Ren Z, Shen Y, Yao R, Yin H

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed

23-Mar-2021

PMCID:	PMC7985747
doi:	10.1186/s13002-021-00447-y
PMID:	33757555

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Name	PubChem ID	Canonical SMILES	MW	Found in	Proof
> Benzenoids / Benzene and substituted derivatives / Benzoic acids and derivatives / Hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives
Protocatechuic Acid	72	Click to see	154.12	unknown	https://doi.org/10.3987/COM-93-6550
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Sesquiterpenoids
Vomifoliol, (+)-	5280462	Click to see	224.30	unknown	https://doi.org/10.3987/COM-93-6550
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Triterpenoids
(+)-Ursolic Acid	64945	Click to see	456.70	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1021/NP960165E https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199803)12:2<146::AID-PTR204>3.0.CO;2-5
Corosolic Acid	6918774	Click to see	472.70	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)80818-3
Maslinic Acid	73659	Click to see	472.70	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199803)12:2<146::AID-PTR204>3.0.CO;2-5 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)80818-3 https://doi.org/10.1021/NP960165E
Tormentic acid	73193	Click to see CC1CCC2(CCC3(C(=CCC4C3(CCC5C4(CC(C(C5(C)C)O)O)C)C)C2C1(C)O)C)C(=O)O	488.70	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199803)12:2<146::AID-PTR204>3.0.CO;2-5 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)80818-3 https://doi.org/10.1021/NP960165E
> Organic oxygen compounds / Organooxygen compounds / Carbohydrates and carbohydrate conjugates / Glycosyl compounds / Phenolic glycosides
Sasanquin	5317538	Click to see	458.50	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)80818-3
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Cinnamic acids and derivatives / Hydroxycinnamic acids and derivatives / Hydroxycinnamic acids
Caffeic Acid	689043	Click to see	180.16	unknown	https://doi.org/10.3987/COM-93-6550
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Flavonoids / Flavonoid glycosides / Flavonoid O-glycosides / Flavonoid-3-O-glycosides
Astragalin	5282102	Click to see C1=CC(=CC=C1C2=C(C(=O)C3=C(C=C(C=C3O2)O)O)OC4C(C(C(C(O4)CO)O)O)O)O	448.40	unknown	https://doi.org/10.3987/COM-93-6550
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Tannins / Hydrolyzable tannins
[(1R,2S,19R,20R,22R)-7,8,9,12,13,14,28,29,30,33,34,35-dodecahydroxy-4,17,25,38-tetraoxo-3,18,21,24,39-pentaoxaheptacyclo[20.17.0.02,19.05,10.011,16.026,31.032,37]nonatriaconta-5,7,9,11,13,15,26,28,30,32,34,36-dodecaen-20-yl] 2-[5-[[(10R,11S,12R,13R,15R)-3,4,5,21,22,23-hexahydroxy-8,18-dioxo-11,12-bis[(3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoyl)oxy]-9,14,17-trioxatetracyclo[17.4.0.02,7.010,15]tricosa-1(23),2,4,6,19,21-hexaen-13-yl]oxycarbonyl]-2,3-dihydroxyphenoxy]-3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoate	16129624	Click to see	1873.30	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50040A016 https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422(92)83451-4 https://doi.org/10.1039/P19850000315
Casuarictin	73644	Click to see	936.60	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)83179-9
Casuarinin	442673	Click to see C1C(C(OC(=O)C2=CC(=C(C(=C2C3=C(C(=C(C=C3C(=O)O1)O)O)O)O)O)O)C4C5C(C6=C(C(=C(C(=C6C(=O)O5)C7=C(C(=C(C=C7C(=O)O4)O)O)O)O)O)O)O)OC(=O)C8=CC(=C(C(=C8)O)O)O	936.60	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)83179-9
CID 338147	338147	Click to see	952.60	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)83179-9
CID 442690	442690	Click to see C1C2C(C(C(C(O2)O)OC(=O)C3=CC(=C(C(=C3)O)O)O)OC(=O)C4=CC(=C(C(=C4)O)O)O)OC(=O)C5=CC(=C(C(=C5C6=C(C(=C(C=C6C(=O)O1)O)O)O)O)O)O	786.60	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)83179-9 https://doi.org/10.1039/P19850000315
Eugeniin	442679	Click to see	938.70	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1039/P19850000315 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)83179-9 https://doi.org/10.1021/NP9801458
Gemin D	471119	Click to see	634.50	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9422(00)83179-9
Pedunculagin	442688	Click to see	784.50	unknown	https://doi.org/10.1021/NP9801458 https://doi.org/10.1039/P19850000315

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Geum aleppicum

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