Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Geraniales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
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 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-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 (4/24/22):
Geranium maculatum
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geranium maculatum
FAMILY
Geraniaceae
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
608
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: cove forests, bottomland forests, other mesic, base-rich forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in Coastal Plain)
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed or dissected
Basal & alternate (often opposite when subtending the inflorescence)
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purplish-pink to almost white
Bisexual
5 sepals
5 petals
10 fertile stamens
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 (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p190
- 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