About Geum coccineum Sibth. & Sm.
Geum coccineum Sibth. & Sm. is a herbaceous perennial plant that reaches a height of 10 to 45 cm. It produces orange-red flowers and blooms from May through August. This species is hexaploid, with a chromosome count of 2n=42, meaning it carries six complete sets of chromosomes. It naturally occurs in wet, marshy meadows and alongside streams. Within Turkey, it grows at elevations between 1200 and 2400 m across multiple locations: multiple localities in the Pontic Mountains, including Karagöl in Gümüşhane province, Zigana in Trabzon, and Cimil in Rize, the Erzurum area, the Ilgaz Mountains of Kastamonu Province, Murat Dağ in Kütahya, and Uludağ also called Bithynian Olympus in Bursa province. In Bulgaria, it grows in mountain regions at elevations of 900 to 2300 m, specifically the western and central Balkan Mountains, Vitosha, Verila, Sredna Gora, Osogovo, Rila, Pirin, Slavyanka, and the western and central Rhodopes. It is also found in the Balkan Mountains of Serbia, North Macedonia, and central Bosnia and Herzegovina. Additional natural ranges include the Accursed Mountains of Albania and Montenegro, the mountains of eastern Albania, and northern Greece, where it grows at 1300–2000 m in northern Pindus and the mountains of Greek Macedonia: Varnous, Vitsi, Pieria, Vermio, Piperitsa, Kajmakčalan and Tzena. Geum coccineum is cultivated as an ornamental decorative plant with several existing cultivars. It has escaped garden cultivation and naturalized in isolated areas of Slovenia and Saxony.
