Geum sylvaticum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Geum sylvaticum, photographed by David Delon — fig. b David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193166172

Geum sylvaticum, photographed by Bastien Alegot — fig. c Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187955274

Geum sylvaticum, photographed by Elizabete Marchante — fig. d Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121524965

Geum sylvaticum, photographed by Daniel Heras González — fig. f Daniel Heras González, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112172543

Geum sylvaticum, photographed by José Luis Camaño — fig. g José Luis Camaño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 147764719

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Geum sylvaticum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
France	FRA	EUROPE
Portugal	POR
Spain	SPA
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Morocco	MOR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 232 in flower of 254 examined

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98%

93%

95%

86%

Proportion of examined Geum sylvaticum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
Mar	46	47	98%	89% to 100%
Apr	112	120	93%	87% to 97%
May	57	60	95%	86% to 98%
Jun	12	14	86%	60% to 96%
Jul	1	3	too few examined
Aug	0	1	too few examined
Sep	0	3	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Geum sylvaticum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 232 of 254 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Geum atlanticum Desf.
Geum biflorum Brot.
Geum inclinatum Timb.-Lagr. ex Nyman
Geum montanum Gouan ex Steud.
Geum pyrenaeum Ramond
Geum pyrenaicum var. sylvaticum (Pourr.) Fiori
Geum sylvaticum var. atlanticum (Desf.) Pau & Font Quer
Geum sylvaticum var. carpetanum Lázaro Ibiza
Geum sylvaticum var. pseudomontanum Rivas Goday & Borja
Sieversia atlantica (Desf.) G.Don

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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