edgepedia

Rosaceous herbaceous plants and small genera

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Acaena

Acaena is a genus of about 56 species of perennial herbs and dwarf shrubs in the rose family, known for burr-like fruits that attach to animals and clothing.

Agrimonia eupatoria

Agrimonia eupatoria (agrimony, church steeples) is a Rosaceae perennial herb of Europe, North Africa, and Asia; its dried flowering tops (Agrimoniae herba) are a tannin-rich traditional astringent drug regulated by an EMA monograph.

Alchemilla

Alchemilla (lady's mantle), Rosaceae genus of perennial herbs with palmately lobed leaves and greenish flowers; apomictic microspecies; used traditionally for gynecological and digestive complaints.

Dryas

Dryas is a genus of dwarf shrubs in the rose family, native to subarctic and subalpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere and best known for the mountain avens.

Dryas octopetala

Dryas octopetala, mountain avens or eightpetal mountain-avens, is a circumpolar arctic-alpine evergreen subshrub of Rosaceae with usually eight-petaled white flowers; it names the Older and Younger Dryas cold periods and is Iceland's national flower.

Filipendula

Filipendula (meadowsweet, dropwort), a Rosaceae genus of about 10–15 perennial herbs of the temperate Northern Hemisphere; basal genus of Rosoideae, diverging about 82.88 Ma; includes medicinal F. ulmaria.

Geum

Geum (avens) is a genus of perennial herbs in Rosaceae, published by Linnaeus in 1753, with about 46-60 temperate Northern Hemisphere species, hooked two-part styles, and achene heads dispersed by plumose styles.

Geum urbanum

Geum urbanum L. (wood avens, herb bennet) is a perennial Rosaceae herb native from Europe to Central Asia and NW Africa, with small yellow flowers and hooked achenes; its clove-scented eugenol root has traditional medicinal and flavoring uses, and it hybridizes with G. rivale as G. × intermedium.

Hagenia abyssinica

Hagenia abyssinica (kosso, African redwood), sole species of the monotypic Rosaceae genus Hagenia, is a dioecious Afromontane tree from Eritrea to Zambia whose dried female flowers are a traditional Ethiopian tapeworm remedy; IUCN Least Concern but endangered in Ethiopia.

Potentilla erecta

Potentilla erecta (tormentil, erect cinquefoil) is a perennial Rosaceae herb of Europe to W. Siberia whose tannin-rich rhizome (Tormentillae rhizoma) is an EU traditional herbal medicine for mild diarrhoea and mouth inflammation.

Sanguisorba minor

Sanguisorba minor, salad burnet or small burnet, a Rosaceae perennial herb native from Europe to the W. Himalaya; cucumber-flavored salad herb, rangeland forage with high protein, tannins, and drought tolerance.

Sanguisorba officinalis

Sanguisorba officinalis (great burnet, di yu, 地榆) is a perennial Rosaceae herb of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, 30–150 cm tall with dark red petalless flower spikes; its dried root (Sanguisorbae Radix) is a Traditional Chinese Medicine hemostatic, and it is IUCN Least Concern.