GERANIUM CAROLINIANUM

Scientific Name: Geranium carolinianum L.

Common Name: Cranesbill

Family: GERANIACEAE

Erect winter annual from a tap root. Leaves basal and cauline, 1.5-3 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, 5-7 cleft, the divisions again cleft into linear segments, pubescent on both surfaces, long-petiolate, the upper often sessile or chort-petiolate; stiples triangular, 3-6 mm long, tapered to acuminate apices. Flowers paired, peduncles shorter than the subtending leaves. Sepals 5-7 mm long excluding the 1-2 mm long mucro, densely pubescent with mostly nonglandular trichomes; petals pale pink. Carpel body trichomes 1-1.5 mm long, nonglandular; beak pubescent, the trichomes short and nonglandular or a few of the longest trichomes glandular. Seeds prominently reticulate, 2 mm long. (n=23, 24). March-June and sporadically later. Common weed of disturbed habitats, gardens, fields, pastures, roadsides, and about granite outcrops; throughout. [SE]
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