Habitat: common in woods, thickets, meadows, rocky outcrops
Plant Height: to 60 cm; multiple erect, pubescent stems from base
Flower Color: pink or white
Flower: perfect; complete; 5 small, pointed sepals; 5 petals; 2.5-4 cm wide; stamens 10, 5 with glandular bases; single pistil with 5 carpels, stigma 5-lobed
Inflorescence: terminal corymb of 1-4 flowers
Fruit: elongated, beaked capsule
Leaves: opposite; long petioles on basal leaves, shorter on cauline leaves, hirsute (course pubescence); palmately divided with 3-7 pubescent lobes; margins on basal leaves entire, cauline leaves coarsely toothed
Bloom Time: late April-June
Origins: native
Other: Cane's Bill and and genus name both refer to beak-like capsule

Flora of East-Central Indiana

Wild Geranium (Crane's Bill)
Scientific Name Geranium maculatum  L.
Family Name Geraniaceae (Geranium Family)

 

Characteristics
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terminal flower developing fruit close up of flower form

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Environmental Education Center
Ball State University, Muncie, IN



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