Common name: Richardson's Geranium
Botanical name: Geranium richardsonii Family: Geraniaceae (Geranium family)
Richardson's Geranium is flowering forb, growing 4 to 36 inches tall, with
1 to a few stems. Stems are stout, forked, and hairy. Flowers May to
August, fruits mature August to September. Reproduces by seed. Flowers in
pairs. Flowers are usually white to pink colored with purple veins and five
petals. The flower stalks are always hairy. Palmately lobed, upper leaves
smaller in size. Petioles of basal and lower leaves are hairy, but not
sticky. Leaves give off a distinctive odor when crushed. Grows in meadows
and moist places at altitudes 1,300-3000 m. Although Richardson's Geranium
is said to be natve to north America, we found it growing wild in Kufri -
probabaly naturalized.
Identification credit: Gautam Muralidharan
| Photographed in Kufri, Himachal Pradesh. |
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aturalized