Nederlands: Geel nagelkruid - Gewoon nagelkruid
Español: Hierba de San Benito - Hierba Bennet
Français: Benoîte commune - Benoîte des villes - Herbe du bon soldat
Deutsch: Echte Nelkenwurz - Gemeine Nelkenwurz - Benediktinerkraut
Family: Rosaceae - Rose family
Flowering time: May-August
Height: 20-60 cm
Altitude: to 2000m
Colour: yellow
Flower: 8-15mm
Fruit: achenes hairy, with feathery, hooked styles
Leaves: basal leaves with 1-5 pairs of unequal, deeply-lobed; stem leaves 3-lobed
Habitat: woods, dunes, shaded habitats
Distribution: almost all over Europe
Notes: The fruits of Geum urbanum have burrs, which are used for dispersal by getting caught in the fur of animals or clothes of people. Geum urbanum hybridises fairly regularly with Geum rivale (Water Avens), as they are closely related and occur together (Geum x intermedium). Geum urbanum is on the Belgium Red List of vascular plants classified as ´at the moment not threatened´. In the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, apart from Geum urbanum three other Geum species can be found: Geum heterocarpum, Geum rivale and Geum sylvaticum.
Related key words: Heemtuin Kralingse Bos Rotterdam, Refugio Rosales, San Jerónimo, Dehesa del Camarate, Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Picos de Europa, insect
