Geranium carolinianum L.
Carolina geranium (Carolina crane's-bill)
Geraniaceae (Geranium family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Carolina geranium (Carolina crane's-bill)
Geraniaceae (Geranium family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Species Information
General:
Annual herb from a taproot; stems erect, branched, spreading-hairy, usually somewhat glandular, especially above, 5-70 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves few, reduced and soon deciduous; stem leaves opposite, more or less rounded in outline, 2-5 cm wide, palmately divided into 5 segments, these cleft or toothed 1/3 to 1/2 their length, spreading-hairy.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a congested, terminal cluster of short-stalked flowers; petals pink or rose, rounded, 3-7 mm long; sepals equal to or slightly longer than the petals, bristle-tipped, the tips 1-1.5 mm long; stamens 10, fertile, not fused.
Fruits:
Carpels, stiff-hairy with ascending hairs and shorter, spreading hairs; styles 1.3-1.6 cm long, the beak 2.0-2.5 mm long; seeds oblong, obscurely net-veined and honeycombed.
Illustration
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
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Geranium carolinianum
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)
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 |
||
|
Avg |
Min |
Max |
|
| Elevation
(metres) |
648 | 385 | 975 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
23 | 0 | 60 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
219 | 185 | 335 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 4 | 5 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
B | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
4 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
IDF | ||
|
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
IDF(2), PP(1) | ||
|
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
|
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Habitat and Range
Dry meadows and rock outcrops in the lowland, steppe and montane zones; locally frequent on SE Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, rare eastward in S BC; E to ON and S to TN, KS, MO, SD, MT and N CA.Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Geranium carolinianum var. sphaerospermum (Fernald) Breitung