Geranium pyrenaicum

Hedgerow geranium

Family: Geraniaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Hedgerow geranium is a naturalized perennial herb found in the central Coast Ranges, specifically noted from a single collection on the UC Berkeley campus, growing in disturbed places, fields, and forest margins at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces bright purple flowers with petals 7 to 11 millimeters long that are distinctly notched at the tip. Growing with erect stems 15 to 110 centimeters tall covered in soft hairs, it develops a robust, upright habit. Its leaves are deeply divided into 5 to 7 wedge-shaped segments, with leaf blades 2.5 to 7.5 centimeters wide. The distinctive fruit develops a slender beak 10 to 15 millimeters long, with smooth mericarp segments that are minutely strigose.

Habitat: Disturbed places, field, forest margins

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: CCo (collected once, UC Berkeley campus, 1914)

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