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Purple Avens. Water Avens

Geum rivale. Rose Family.

Stems.--About two feet high; several--flowered. Root--leaves.--Deeply parted. Stem--leaves.--Few; three--parted (into three leaflets) or three--lobed. Flowers.--Large; purplish. Calyx.-Brown-purple; deeply five-cleft. Corolla.--Of five petals, these contracted into claws. Stamens.--Many. Pistils.--Numerous.

During the summer, in wet meadows, we notice the nodding flowers of the water avens.