Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Geranium sibiricum L. Sp. PI. 683. 1753 Annual or biennial. Stems loosely spreading, 3-11 dm. long, sometimes creeping, villous-hirsute ; leaf-blades 2.5-8 cm. broad, 3-parted, the divisions loosely toothed or lobed, or the lateral ones cleft ; petioles with retrorse-spreading hairs ; pedicels solitary, pubescent like the petioles ; sepals 6-7 mm. long, minutely awn-tipped, the bodies elliptic ; petals whitish with purple veins, slightly longer than the sepals; style-column 10-13 mm. long at maturity; carpel-bodies 3-3.5 mm. long, puberulent and sparingly pubescent; seeds minutely granular and obscurely reticulate.
Type locality : Siberia.
Distribution: New York, Illinois, and California. Naturalized from Asia.
- 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
