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Geranium incanum Burm.f., Spec. Bot. Geran. 28 1759. (Syn: Geranium elongatum Salisb.; Geranium incanum var. b ; Geranium incanum var. multifidum (Sweet) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt; Geranium multifidum Sweet);
Forming ground cover with highly distinctive filiform leaf segments; flowers 22-30 mm across, pink to purple darker veins, on two-flowered elongated peduncles;
Differentiated from G. sanguineum by its two-flowered peduncles and deeply divided segments, with linear ultimate segments;
Geranium incanum from California: Geranium incanum, another commonly grown Geranium here in California easily differentiated from G. sanguineum by its two-flowered peduncles and deeply divided segments, with linear ultimate segments. Pl. notice that main segments arise fom a place (palmate) although in turn they are pinnately divided. The flowers may be magenta or purplish-blue same size or slightly smaller. The plant forms a dense carpet like growth and as such known as carpet Geranium. My other uploads from India can be found here:
Balsaminaceae, Geraniaceae and Oxalidaceae Week: Geraniaceae-Geranium incanum from California-GS-21 : 4 images. 2 posts by 2 authors.
Geranium incanum Burm.f., Spec. bot. Geran. 28, t. 1, fig. 26. 1759
A native of Africa, found cultivated in California forming ground cover with highly distinctive filiform leaf segments; flowers 22-30 mm across, pink to purple darker veins, on two-flowered elongated peduncles.
Photographed from Sunnyvale, California
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