Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Geranium gracile Engelm. in A. Gray, PI. Fendl. 27. 1S49
Geranium atropurpureum Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 28 : 195. 189S.
Perennial, the eaudex branched. Stems tufted, ascending or spreading, 1-9 dm. long, often scape-like, retrorsely pubescent; leaf-blades thick, those of the lower leaves reniform or orbicular, 2-5 cm. wide, those of the upper pentagonal or triangular, all canescent or strigillose-canescent, 3-5-parted, the divisions incised or coarsely toothed ; pedicels retrorsely pubescent with usually glandless hairs; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 10-11.5 mm. long, the bodies broadly oblong, finely pubescent and ciliate ; petals purple, 12-15 mm. long; style-column 19-23 mm. long, minutely pubescent ; carpel-bodies 3.5^1 mm. long, finely pilose ; seeds reticulate.
Type locality : Cosiquiriachi, Chihuahua, Mexico. Distribution : Colorado to New Mexico and northern Mexico.
- 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
