Oregon Geranium

Geranium canum Rydberg
Geranium incisum Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 106. 1S97. Not G. incisum Nutt. 188S.
Perennial, the caudex usually simple. Stems scape-like, 3-7 dm. long, the first internode much elongate, densely pubescent with loosely spreading or retrorse-spreading hairsleaf-blades thickish, 6-12 cm. wide, densely hoary, more or less distinctly suborbicular in outline, 3-5-parted, the divisions rather sharply and irregularly incised ; pedicels glandular-hirsute ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 13-15 mm. long, the bodies lanceolate or nearly so, glandular-ciliate ; petals purple, 13-1S mm. long; style-column 30-40 mm. long, about 2 mm. thick, glandular-pubescent ; carpel-bodies 5 mm. long, minutely pubescent and a little glandular near the top ; seeds closely reticulate.
Type locality : Willamette Valley, Oregon. Distribution : Washington. Oregon, and Wyoming.

Geranium oreganum is a species of geranium known by the common name Oregon cranesbill, or Oregon geranium. It is native to western North America from California to Alberta, where it grows in mountain forests and meadows. This is a perennial herb growing generally erect to heights of 40 to 80 centimeters. The slender stems have a foliage of large palmate leaves up to 15 centimeters wide and divided into several segments, each of which is subdivided into rounded or pointed lobes. The flower has pointed sepals beneath rounded lavender to purple petals. The fruit has a small body with a pointed style column up to five centimeters long.