Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Geranium richardsonii Fisch. & Trautv. Ind. Sem. Hort Petrop. 4: 37. 1837.
Geranium albiflorum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 116. 1831. Not G. albiflorum Ledeb. 1831.
Geranium Hookerianum Walp. Rep. 1 : 450. 1842.
Geranium penlagynum Engelm. in Wisliz. Tour Northern Mex. 90. 1848.
Geranium gracilentum Greene ; Rydb. Fl. Colo. 218. 1906.
Perennial, the caudex often slightly branched. Stems solitary or several together, scape-like, erect or ascending, 4-9 dm. long, pubescent with spreading purple gland-tipped hairs or nearly glabrous; leaf-blades thin, mostly pentagonal in outline, 3-5-parted, the divisions incised, toothed or lobed, usually rather sharply so, sparingly pubescent or glabrous ; pedicels glandular-pubescent ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 8.5-11.5 mm. long, the bodies elliptic or oblong-elliptic, pubescent and often glandular-ciliate ; petals white, 12-20 mm. long; style-coluinn 19-23 mm. long, glandular-pubescent; carpel-bodies 4^4.5 mm. long, glandular-hirsute, at least near the top ; seeds reticulate.
Type locality : Valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Distribution : South Dakota to California and Colorado.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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
