Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Geranium texanum
Geranium texanum (Trel.) A. Heller
Texas Geranium
Geraniaceae (Geranium Family)
USDA Symbol: GETE2USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Geranium texanum
Texas Geranium, Cranes-Bill
Geraniaceae
Location: SE corner of Austin Hwy & Salado Creek crossing, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Sunny, well drained, roadside slope. Among Poaceae & many other herbs.
Description: Erect annual w/basal rosette & few branched basally, 40 cm tall. Leaves opposite, long (to 20 cm) petioled, palmate & deeply incised. Infloresence long peduncled, axillary. Sepals 7 mm long. Petals white/purpled tinged.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 11, 1994
Specimen number: 528
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0812
Accession Date: Jun 29, 1994
Accession Number: 61
Annotations: SCFRB (In flower & fruit)