Geranium viscosissimum
Sticky Geranium

Family: Geraniaceae (Geranium family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Ski Hill, open meadow, moist in the spring

Flowers:

pedicel 2 to 4 cm, pedicel hairs tipped with white to yellow glands; sepals 8 to 12 mm, awned; petals 12 to 20 cm, pink to red purple in color with veins red to purple, 1/5 to 1/3 of the inner petal base soft hairy; stigmas 4-5 mm; 10 stamens

Fruit:

body 4-6 mm, more or less glandular puberlent, style column 25-30 mm, beak 3 to 5 mm

Leaves:

blades 3-10 cm wide, dissected into 5 to 7 broadly wedge to diamond shaped segments, the upper half of each segment is lobed again

Plant:

perennial; stem ascending to erect, 30 to 80 cm, sparsely hairy to glandular

Habitat:

meadows, open sites in sagebrush shrubland, coniferous forest

Distribution of species:

Northern California to British Columbia and in the Rocky Mountains

Distribution of genus:

250 to 300 species: temperate and tropical areas

More information about this plant:

Flora Northwest