Geranium yeoi

Family: Geraniaceae · Type: biennial

Geranium yeoi is a naturalized biennial found in open to shaded sites at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from October to November, this plant produces rounded purple petals with yellow anthers in delicate blossoms. Growing with erect stems 35 to 100 centimeters tall and sparse hairs, it has distinctive deeply divided leaves with five segments, each pinnately lobed and dissected. Its leaf blades span 5.8 to 17.3 centimeters wide, with middle segments featuring up to 96 lobes in the distal half. The fruit develops mericarp segments 3.1 to 4 millimeters long with a narrow beak 21.2 to 27 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Open to shaded sites

Bloom period: Oct-Nov

Elevation: < 100 m

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