Geum urbanum var. strictum

Erect, shortly rhizomatous herb to 1 m high; stems reddish-green, glabrous, or hairy with short and long hairs. Leaves pinnate or pinnately lobed, 4–30 cm long, decreasing in size up stem; leaflets pinnately 3-foliolate or imparipinnate with 5–11 leaflets, terminal leaflet usually 3–5-lobed, hairy on both surfaces, mainly along veins, margins irregularly crenate-serrate and lobed; petiole 5–20 cm long; stipules leaflike, toothed and chiefly 3-lobed, 0.75–2 cm long. Inflorescence a terminal, few-flowered, lax cyme; peduncles to 14 cm long. Epicalyx lobes lanceolate, 2–5 mm long; sepals narrowly ovate, 4–7 mm long, hairy with short cottony hairs along upper margin and upper midrib of inner surface; petals yellow, ovate, obtuse, 5–8 mm long. Achenes c. 50–70, forming a globose head 10–15 mm long in fruit, glabrous or with a few hairs at base; style persistent and hooked, reddish, elongating to c. 10 mm; calyx and epicalyx reflexed in fruit. Flowers Dec.–Feb.