• Scientific Name: Geum japonicum var. chinense F. Bolle
• Ref: Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem. 11:210. 1931
• English Common Name: Chinese herb bennet
• Chinese Common Name: 柔毛路边青 róumáo lùbiān∙qīng, 柔毛水杨梅 róumáo shuǐ∙yángméi
• Family: Rosaceae
• Genus: Geum
• Distribution: Thinned forests, thickets, grassy mountain slopes, river banks, field margins; 200–2300 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
• Photo: 08/14/2010, Qingliang Peak, Zhejiang

Roots fascicled, fibrous. Stems erect, 25–60 cm tall, together with petioles yellow pubescent and rigid hairy. Radical leaves lyrate-pinnate, 5–20 cm including petiole, usually with 1 or 2 pairs of lateral leaflets and several segments, both surfaces sparsely strigose; leaflets unequal, terminal one largest, ovate to broadly obovate, lobed or not, 3–8 × 5–9 cm, base broadly cordate or cuneate, margin coarsely obtusely or acutely serrate, apex rounded; cauline leaves: stipules green, herbaceous, margin irregularly coarsely crenate; leaf blade of lower leaves 3-foliolate, of upper ones simple, entire or 3-lobed, segments obtuse or acute at apex. Inflorescence terminal, laxly several flowered. Flowers 1.5–1.8 cm in diam.; pedicel densely rigid hairy and pubescent. Sepals triangular-ovate, apex acuminate; epicalyx segments elliptic-lanceolate, minute, ca. 1/2 as long as sepals, pubescent abaxially, apex acute. Petals yellow, suborbicular, longer than sepals. Style terminal, twisted at joint ca. 1/4 way from apex; proximal section pilose; distal section deciduous at fruit maturity. Achene aggregate ovoid to ellipsoid; fruiting receptacle hirtellous, hairs 2–3 mm; achenes hirtellous; proximal section of style persistent, glabrous, apex hooked. Fl. and fr. May–Oct. (Flora of China)

08/14/2010, Qingliang Peak, Zhejiang

08/14/2010, Qingliang Peak, Zhejiang