Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Geraniales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Geranium maculatum
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Wild Geranium at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geranium maculatum
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Geranium maculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Geranium maculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 101-01-001:
Geranium maculatum FAMILY Geraniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geranium maculatum
COMMON NAME:
Wild Geranium
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_135
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gema_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120325_853
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Leaves purplish-green, with 3-5 narrow lobes deeply toothed at the tips, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
COMPARE
leaves of Geranium, Larkspur and Monkshood
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JK Marlow jkm120325_854
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Five petals, ten stamens, one pistil, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm120325_861
March McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
Sepals 7-10mm long excluding the 1-3mm mucro, canescent with long trichomes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_geranium_maculatum_2
March
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JK Marlow jkm0304r_32
April Rutherford County NC
Chimney Rock Park
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JK Marlow jkm0504c_36
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm200411_3689
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm220419_6940
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
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Keith Bradley kab_g_maculatum_5512
April McCormick County SC
Stevens Creek Heritage Refuge
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgmaculatum_lex1
April
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JK Marlow jkm0405k_22
May Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0372
May Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_g_maculatum_6
May
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JK Marlow s080504_c
May Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Tim Spira tpsgmaculatum_fruits
May
Capsules with a slender beak to 1" long, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm200606_5672
June Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm200606_5691
June Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Geranium maculatum
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geranium maculatum
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Geranium maculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Geranium maculatum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 101-01-001:
Geranium maculatum
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geranium maculatum
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: cove forests, bottomland forests, other mesic, base-rich forests; sometimes also cultivated, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed or dissected
Basal & alternate (often opposite when subtending the inflorescence)
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purplish-pink to almost white
5 sepals
5 petals
10 fertile stamens
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p165
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p131
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p132
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p028
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p190
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p236
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p280
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p377
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p139
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p041
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p134
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p170
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p204
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p378
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p089
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