Geranium bicknellii Britton

Erect annual or biennial, usually with many ascending branches, eventually to 5 dm; lvs pentagonal, the principal ones cleft nearly to the base with usually 5 segments, these deeply incised into several narrowly oblong lobes; peduncles 2-fld, the elongate pedicels glandular-villous; sep at anthesis 7–9 mm including the conspicuous subulate tip; pet retuse, equaling the sep; mature fr, including the cal, 20–25 mm, the stylar beak 4–5 mm, the carpel-bodies 3 mm, sparsely hirsute, not wrinkled. Open woods and fields; Nf. and Que. to B.C., s. to N.Y., Pa., Ind., Mo., and S.D. May–Sept.

It is a temperate plant. It grows near the tree line in the Rocky Mountains. It grows in clearings and open woods and in disturbed soil. It needs a sunny location.

The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. The flowers are eaten raw.

Can be grown by seedlings.