Geranium lucidum, L.

36. G. lucidum L. View in CoL View at ENA , Sp. Pl. 682 (1753).

Annual, shining green, often tinged with red, usually sparsely hairy. Stems 10-40 cm, erect or ascending. Leaves 2-6 cm wide, divided for 60-70 % of the radius into 5 obovate-cuneate lobes, which are crenate or shortly 3-fid at the apex, with broad, obtuse, mucronate segments. Sepals 5-7 mm, aristate, erect and connivent during flowering, strongly keeled and with transverse ridges. Petals 8-10 mm, with a well-marked claw longer than the obovate, entire, pink limb. Mericarps usually separating without a stylar beak, laterally compressed, with 5 strong, longitudinal ridges at apex, irregularly reticulate-rugose below, pubescent on upper and inner sides. 2« = 20. Most of Europe except the northeast. Al Au Be BI Br Bu Co Cr Cz Da Fe Ga Ge Gr Hb He Hs Hu It Ju Lu No Rm Rs (B, W, K) Sa Si Su Tu [Po?Rs (E)].