Geranium pusillum

Small flowered geranium

Family: Geraniaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Small flowered geranium is a naturalized annual found in northern California Coast, southern Sierra Nevada foothills, northern Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, and southern Sierra Nevada in disturbed open places and dry grasslands at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from March to September, this plant produces pink to violet flowers with petals 2 to 3 millimeters long, often with a slight notch. Growing with decumbent to erect stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall that are often branched and covered in soft hairs, it has a spreading habit. Its leaves are divided into 7 wedge-shaped segments, with blades 1.5 to 4.8 centimeters wide, cut nearly to the base. The fruit consists of smooth mericarp with a narrow beak 7 to 9 millimeters long.

Habitat: Disturbed open places, dry grassland

Bloom period: Mar-Sep

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: NCo, s SNF, n CCo, SnFrB, s SNE

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.