OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Geraniales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Geranium dissectum   FAMILY Geraniaceae   Go to FSUS key


SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geranium dissectum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 101-01-003:

Geranium dissectum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Geranium dissectum

 

COMMON NAME:
Cutleaf Cranesbill


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image of Geranium dissectum, Cutleaf Cranesbill

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gedi_001_lvd

        

image of Geranium dissectum, Cutleaf Cranesbill

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_g_dissectum_8981b

March    Catawba County    NC

Similar to G. carolinianum but has deep pink or purple flowers w 1/4" petals, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Geranium dissectum, Cutleaf Cranesbill

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_g_dissectum_8995

March    Catawba County    NC

image of Geranium dissectum, Cutleaf Cranesbill

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_geranium_dissectum_4

April        

Leaves 5-7 cleft, the divisions again cleft into linear segments, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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image of Geranium dissectum, Cutleaf Cranesbill

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_geranium_dissectum_1

April    Catawba County    NC

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Geranium dissectum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Geranium dissectum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 101-01-003:
Geranium dissectum   FAMILY Geraniaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Geranium dissectum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1888

Forb
Winter annual

Habitat: Roadsides, pastures, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Europe, central Asia, & northern Africa

Common in GA Mountains & Carolina Piedmont, rare in Coastal Plain (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple - palmately lobed or dissected
Basal & alternate (often opposite when subtending the inflorescence)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purplish-pink
Bisexual
5 sepals
5 petals
10 fertile stamens

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer

 

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