E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of BC

Geranium bicknellii Britton
Bicknell's geranium (Bicknell's crane's-bill)
Geraniaceae (Geranium family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

General:
Annual to biennial herb from a taproot; stems decumbent to erect, much-branched, spreading-hairy, often glandular above, 5-60 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves few, reduced and soon deciduous; stem leaves opposite, triangular to rounded in outline, 2-7 cm wide, palmately divided into 5 segments, these cleft or toothed 1/2 their length, hairy.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of 2 flowers per stalk, the stalk axillary or terminal and 1.5 to 3 times the length of the sepals; petals pink, 4-8 mm long, notched at the tip; sepals equal to the petals, bristle-tipped, the tips 1-2 mm long; stamens 10, fertile, not fused.

Fruits:
Carpels, hairy, not wrinkled; styles 1.6-1.9 cm long, the beak 4-5 mm long; seeds oblong, net-veined and pitted.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Ecological Framework for Geranium bicknellii

The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)

Site Information	Value / Class
Site Information	Avg	Min	Max
Elevation (metres)	882	25	1639
Slope Gradient (%)	27	0	136
Aspect (degrees) [0 - N; 90 - E; 180 - S; 270 - W]	191	7	350
Soil Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric]	3	0	5
Modal Nutrient Regime Class	C
# of field plots species was recorded in:	104
Modal BEC Zone Class	SBS
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in	BWBS(3), CDF(1), CWH(1), ESSF(1), ICH(2), IDF(7), MS(1), SBS(50), SWB(2)
Source: Klinkenberg 2013

Moist to mesic forest openings, recent burns and seepage areas in the lowland, steppe and montane zones; frequent in BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains, common on SE Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, infrequent in the lower Fraser Valley, absent elsewhere on the coast; N to AK, YT and NT, E to NF and S to IO, IN, CO, UT and N CA.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Origin Status	Provincial Status	BC List (Red Blue List)	COSEWIC
Native	S5	Yellow	Not Listed

BC Ministry of Environment: BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer.

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