| Geranium richardsonii Fisch. & Trautv. | |||
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| Family | Geraniaceae — APG family: Geraniaceae | ||
| Description | Stems from thick caudex; basal leaves long-petiolated, 5-7-parted into rhombic, acutely lobed segments, strigose above and on veins beneath; upper leaves sessile; peduncles and pedicels pilose with purplish-tipped glands; pedicels in pairs; sepals ovate-lanceolate, awn-tipped; petals white or pinkish with purple veins, pilose with long, white hairs on the inside to about half their length; carpels and style column glandular. | ||
| Ecology | Moist meadows. Described from northwestern North America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the very closely related G. albiflorum Ledeb. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.