Carolina Geranium

Geranium thermale Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 478. 1900
Annual (?) or biennial, or sometimes perennial. Stems branched at the base, the branches diffusely spreading, 1-1.4 dm. long, puberulent and finely pubescent; leaf-blades 1-2 cm. broad, mainly 3-parted, the divisions more or less deeply lobed ; petioles with minute spreading hairs ; pedicels in pairs, pubescent like the petioles ; sepals awn-tipped, the bodies broadly ovate or oval, 4-5 mm. long, the awn-tip about 0.5 mm. long; petals rose-purple, hardly as long as the sepals ; style-column 5-7 mm. long at maturity ; carpelbodies about 2 mm. long, villous-hirsute and puberulent; seeds reticulate. Type locality : Lo-Lo Hot Springs, Montana. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Geranium langloisii Greene, Pittonia 3 : 171. 1897 Resembling G. carolinianum in floral and fruit characters, and G. dissectum in habit, but stouter. Leaves with quite finely divided blades, the ultimate segments linear ; inflorescence open, few-flowered ; pedicels copiously villous-hirsute, the terminal glands of the hairs inconspicuous ; petals pale rose-purple ; seeds reticulate.
Type locality: St. Martinsville, Louisiana.
Distribution : Louisiana and Texas.

Geranium carolinianum L. Sp. PI. 682. 1753
Geranium atrum Moench, Meth. 285. 1794.
Geranium lanuginosum Jacq. Hurt. Schoenb. 2 : S. 1797.
Annual or biennial. Stems simple below and erect or branched at the base, the branches ascending or rarely spreading, more or less glandular-pubescent; leaf-blades 3-6 cm. broad, reniform or orbicular-reniform in outline, slightly angular, the main divisions cleft or parted, with oblong or linear-oblong lobes ; peduncles and pedicels relatively short, forming a congested inflorescence ; sepals awn-tipped, the outer ones 6-10 mm. long, the bodies ovate, sometimes broadly so, the awn-tips rather long ; petals pink or whitish, about as long as the sepals; style-column 12-1S mm. long at maturity, with somewhat spreading, often glandular hairs ; carpel-bodies 3-3.5 mm. long, pilose with erect hairs ; seeds reticulate.
Type locality : Carolina.
Distribution : Throughout southern Canada and the United States ; also in northern Mexico, Bermuda, and Jamaica.