Geranium maculatum L.

Perennial from a stout rhizome, with a few long-petioled basal lvs, these pedately cleft into 5–7 cuneately laciniate segments; stems erect, 3–7 cm, with a single pair of short-petioled lvs; fls few–several; cal and pedicels pubescent but not glandular; pet pink (white), 12–18 mm, entire; mature pedicels suberect; frs erect, 3–4 cm, including the 5–8 mm stylar beak. Common in woods; Me. to S.C. and n. Ga., w. to Man., Neb., and ne. Okla. Apr.–June.

Wet places in woods, wet rocks and in swamps. Woodlands, thickets and meadows.

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.