Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)


      The Wild Geranium has five-petaled flowers at the top of its leafy stem, one to three feet tall. Its lavender, one to 1-1/2-inch flowers are in loose clusters of two to five at the ends of branches above a pair of deeply cut five to seven-lobed leaves. The basal leaves are four to five inches long, deeply toothed and coarsely veined. Wild Geraniums grow in shade and part shade in dry or moist woodlands, woodland edges, and shaded meadows. (LS)