Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Geranium pusillum Burm. f. Sp. Geran. 27. 1759 Annual or biennial. Stems branched at the base, the branches decumbent or prostrate, 1-5.5 dm. long, forking, puberulent; leaf-blades reniform in outline, 1.5-5 cm. broad, 5-7parted, the divisions toothed or lobed at the apex ; petioles puberulent and with few spreading hairs ; pedicels in pairs, minutely glandular-pubescent, especially under the calyx ; sepals elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2.5—1 mm. long, awnless; petals violet, often pale, cuneate, longer than the sepals, notched ; stamens 5 ; style-column 8-9 mm. long at maturity, shortbeaked ; carpel-bodies about 2 mm. long, finely pubescent; seeds smooth.
Type locality : England and France.
Distribution: Ontario to British Columbia, New England, New Jersey, Virginia, Nebraska, and Utah ; Bermuda. Naturalized from Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
