Geranium sparsiflorum R.Knuth

Clumped perennial herb, stems straggling, decumbent, subsimple, herbaceous, clad in both short and long spreading, often gland-tipped, hairs, sometimes underlain by fine eglandular ± appressed hairs. Stipules deeply dissected, segments linear-acuminate. Radical leaves tufted, the stipulate bases of the petioles congested into a stout woody oblong mass up to ±50 x 10 mm, petioles up to ±300 mm long, with long spreading hairs, often gland-tipped, blade ±40-90 mm diam., digitately 5-lobed more than three quarters of the way to the base, lobes rhomboid in outline, deeply and sharply dissected, the ultimate segments lanceolate, very acute, long, coarse, spreading, rather sparse hairs above, long spreading hairs below more or less confined to the veins, often some gland-tipped; cauline leaves similar, but petioles progressively shorter upwards, uppermost leaves more or less sessile and sometimes lobed nearly to the base. Peduncles opposite the uppermost leaves and much exceeding them, with long (many at least 1 mm long, sometimes reaching 1.75 mm) spreading hairs, gland-tipped or not, 2-flowered. Pedicels seldom exceeding 40 mm, hairy as the peduncles. Sepals 6.9 x 2-3 mm, excluding mucro, finely appressed-pubescent, long spreading hairs as well, gland-tipped or not. Petals 12-16 x 5-10 mm, obovate, entire or shallowly notched, pink. Rostrum with or without ± spreading gland-tipped hairs.