Wild Geranium - Geranium maculatum

These are so common in the summer, but their colors always startle me. They have pinkish-purple flowers with 5 petals. The individual flowers were approximately 20 mm in diameter. It has green leaves that are deeply cut and palmately 5-lobed with very hairy stems. This patch had some startlingly blue flowers!

Habitat: Meadow in a mixed forest

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Flown Kimmerling

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This is sooo beautiful. Out of a fairy tale! <3 <3 I would love to be startled by these! Posted 6 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
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  Thanks, Lisa! I think the lack of flash intensified the colors for this shot though because it wasn't quite this blue in person. It was gorgeous though! Posted 6 years ago

The Wild Geranium

"Geranium maculatum", the wild geranium, spotted geranium, or wood geranium, is a perennial plant native to woodland in eastern North America, from southern Manitoba and southwestern Quebec south to Alabama and Georgia and west to Oklahoma and South Dakota.

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Similar species: Geraniales

Species identified by Christine Young