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Spread The Wealth

Wild Geranium flowers fill my flower garden each year. I've never intentionally planted them. However, the geranium ensures that it can spread the wealth. After blooming, fruit capsules are produced 3-5 weeks later. Each consists of a long, central beak-like column (resembling a crane’s head) and five basal cells, each containing one seed. The carpels of the fruit curl upward and backward to spring open when ripe, expelling the seeds 10-30 feet from the mother plant. More information can be found at : www.npsnj.org/photo_galleries/photo_pages/geranium_macula...

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Uploaded on August 4, 2020
Taken on May 24, 2020