Geranium robertianum, L.

37. G. robertianum L. View in CoL View at ENA , Sp. PI. 681 (1753).

Annual or biennial, often turning red, more or less hairy. Stems 10-50 cm, procum­ bent to ascending. Leaves 3-8 cm wide, very deeply divided, so as to appear compound, with 3(-5) principal divisions, which are 2-pinnatisect with oblong, mucronate or apiculate segments. Pedicels with long, patent glandular and deflexed eglandular hairs. Sepals 7-9 mm, erect, lanceolate, aristate, hirsute. Petals 9-13(-15) mm; limb 6-9 mm, obovate-cuneate, entire, bright pink, abruptly contracted to a narrow claw. Pollen orange. Mericarps separating without stylar beak, but remaining attached to the axis by a strand of delicate fibres; with 1 or 2 strong, transverse ridges at the apex and a few low, irregular ridges formingan open reticulum elsewhere; ridges usually hairy. 2n — 32, 64. Europe except the extreme north. All except?B1 Fa Is Sb.