Common Name:
wild
geranium
Common Name Synonym:
spotted cranesbill
Scientific Name:
Geranium maculatum
Family Name:
Geraniaceae
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Geranium Family
Life Cycle
native perennial, reproducing by seed and creeping roots
Stems
upright, branched, hairy, hairs spreading or pointed toward base
Leaves
opposite on stem (one pair with short petiole or sessile) and basal leaves (few to several with long petiole), palmately divided and deeply cleft into 5-7 segments upper commonly having 3 segments, segments irregularly shallow and deeply toothed, hairy
Flowers
5-petaled, pink to lavender purple occasionally white, petals with dark lines and whitish bases ; terminal cluster, loose, few to several
Fruit
capsule, upright, long, thin, beaked, 5-seeded, green to brown at maturity
