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Geranium potentilloides (Soft Crane's-bill)

Geranium potentilloides (Soft Crane's-bill)

Prostrate to scrambling perennial; stems to about 100 cm long, with short, soft spreading to recurved or appressed hairs; taproot thickened, much-branched. Leaves orbicular to reniform, 0.5–4.5 cm long, palmatisect with 5–7, trifid, sometimes further dissected or toothed, primary lobes; ultimate lobes obtuse to acute; upper surface with spreading hairs;

Flowers solitary (rarely paired); sepals ovate to oblanceolate, 3.5–5 mm long, petals spathulate to broad-obovate, 4–8.5 mm long, obtuse to retuse, white to pink; anthers yellow to orange.

 

Characterized by single flowers, thickened and branched taproots, and the uniform recurved or appressed indumentum on most or all parts of plant."

(from VicFlora)

 

 

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Uploaded on August 29, 2018
Taken on October 3, 2008