Water avens
Geum rivale
Common Name: Water avens
Genus: Geum
Species: rivale
Category: Aquatic & Bog Garden Plants
Height: 0.60 m (60 cm)
Spread: 0.60 m (60 cm)
Nodding, bell-shaped, dusky pink to dark orange red flowers on mahogany tinted stems from late spring to midsummer above rosettes of scalloped fresh green leaves. Water arens is an excellent and attractive groundcover plant for a bog garden. The seed-heads which resemble little raspberries are an important decorative feature retained on the plant all summer.
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Depth of water: 0-15cm
- Rate of growth: fast
- Height above surface: 45-60cm/18-24in
- Flowering period: May to July
- Flower colour: red
- Other features: rosettes of scalloped fresh green leaves
- Hardiness: fully hardy
- Garden care: Lift and divide large clumps every year in early spring or late autumn
- Goes well with: Iris laevigata Acorus calamus Carex elata 'Aurea' Typha minima Juncus effusus f. 'Spiralis' Sisyrichium californicum
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