OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Geraniales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Geranium maculatum   FAMILY Geraniaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geranium maculatum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Geranium maculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Geranium maculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 101-01-001:

Geranium maculatum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Geranium maculatum

 

COMMON NAME:
Wild Geranium


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image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_135

        

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gema_001_lvd

        

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm120325_853

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

Leaves purplish-green, with 3-5 narrow lobes deeply toothed at the tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).


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image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm120325_854

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

Five petals, ten stamens, one pistil, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm120325_861

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

Sepals 7-10mm long excluding the 1-3mm mucro, canescent with long trichomes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_geranium_maculatum_2

March        

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm0304r_32

April    Rutherford County    NC

Chimney Rock Park

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm0504c_36

April    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm200411_3689

April    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm220419_6940

April    Pickens County    SC

Nine Times Preserve

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

Keith Bradley    kab_g_maculatum_5512

April    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Refuge

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmgmaculatum_lex1

April        

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm0405k_22

May    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm210516_0372

May    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_g_maculatum_6

May        

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    s080504_c

May    Swain County    NC

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

Tim Spira    tpsgmaculatum_fruits

May        

Capsules with a slender beak to 1" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm200606_5672

June    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium

JK Marlow    jkm200606_5691

June    Haywood County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Geranium maculatum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geranium maculatum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Geranium maculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Geranium maculatum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 101-01-001:
Geranium maculatum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geranium maculatum

 

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608

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: cove forests, bottomland forests, other mesic, base-rich forests; sometimes also cultivated, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (rare in Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed or dissected
Basal & alternate (often opposite when subtending the inflorescence)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purplish-pink to almost white
5 sepals
5 petals
10 fertile stamens
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer

 

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