Geum montanum
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Geum montanum, the Alpine avens, is a species of flowering plant of the genus Geum in the Rosaceae family, native to the mountains of central and southern Europe.
Distribution
Geum montanum is widespread in the Alps, typically at elevations in the range 1430–2300{{nbsp}}m (though it occurs at as low as 700{{nbsp}}m in Centovalli and as high as 3500{{nbsp}}m in Monte Rosa). It is found in the Pyrenees, the Cantabrians, the Massif Central, the Black Forest, the Sudetes (1300–1400{{nbsp}}m), throughout the Carpathians (900–2500{{nbsp}}m in the Tatras), in the north of the Apennines, on the island of Corsica, and on the Balkan Peninsula: in the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo (specifically in Žljeb and Accursed Mountains), northernmost Greece (2000–2500{{nbsp}}m in Varnous, Kajmakčalan and Tzena), in the east of Serbia (Suva Planina) and the west of Bulgaria (at elevations of 1600–2700{{nbsp}}m in western and central Stara Planina, Sredna Gora, Vitosha, Osogovo, Rila, Pirin, Slavyanka and the western Rhodopes).{{cite book| last1 = Kurtto| first1 = Arto| last2 = Lampinen| first2 = Raino| last3 = Junikka| first3 = Leo| date = 2004| title = Atlas florae Europaeae, distribution of vascular plants in Europe. 13: Rosaceae (Spiraea to Fragaria, excl. Rubus)| publisher = Committee for mapping the flora of Europe and Societas Biologica Fennica| location = Helsinki| isbn = 978-951-9108-14-8|page = 141}}{{cite book| last1 = Meusel| first1 = Hermann| last2 = Jäger| first2 = E.| last3 = Weinert| first3 = E.| date = 1965| title = Vergleichende Chorologie der zentraleuropäischen Flora| volume = [Band I]| publisher = Fischer| location = Jena| at = T531}}{{cite book| last = Asenov| first = I.| chapter = Omajniče – Geum L.| title = Flora na Narodna Republika Bǎlgarija|volume = V| year = 1973| editor-last1 = Vǎlev| editor-first1 = Stoju| editor-last2 = Asenov| editor-first2 = Ivan| place = Sofia| publisher = Bulgarian Academy of Sciences| language = Bulgarian| page = 193}}{{cite book|last = Gajić| first = M.| chapter = Rod Geum L.| title = Flora SR Srbije| volume = 4| year = 1972| place = Beograd| publisher = Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti| language = Serbian| page = 73}}{{cite book|last = Persson| first = J.| editor-last = Strid| editor-first = Arne| date = 1986| title = Mountain flora of Greece| chapter = Geum L.| pages = 402–3| publisher = Cambridge University Press| isbn = 978-0-521-25737-4}}
Uses
In cultivation in the UK, Geum montanum has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.{{cite web | url = https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/7970/Geum-montanum/Details | title = Geum montanum | website = www.rhs.org | publisher = Royal Horticultural Society | accessdate = 10 July 2020}}
Geum montanum roots have been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally as tea for treatment of rheumatism, gout, infections, and fever.{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.jep.2013.06.007|pmid=23770053|title=Ethnopharmacological in vitro studies on Austria's folk medicine—An unexplored lore in vitro anti-inflammatory activities of 71 Austrian traditional herbal drugs|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology|volume=149|issue=3|pages=750–71|year=2013|last1=Vogl|first1=Sylvia|last2=Picker|first2=Paolo|last3=Mihaly-Bison|first3=Judit|last4=Fakhrudin|first4=Nanang|last5=Atanasov|first5=Atanas G.|last6=Heiss|first6=Elke H.|last7=Wawrosch|first7=Christoph|last8=Reznicek|first8=Gottfried|last9=Dirsch|first9=Verena M.|last10=Saukel|first10=Johannes|last11=Kopp|first11=Brigitte|pmc=3791396}}
Notes
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External links
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Category:Plants described in 1753
Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Category:Flora of the Carpathians
Category:Flora of the Pyrenees
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