Characteristics
Angiosperms (Dicots)
Geranium pusillum L.
Small-flowered Crane's-bill
Herb
Annual
Vascular
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Reported new for Alabama by England (2018) based on a series of specimens he made from multiple counties in North Alabama in 2018. However, an earlier specimen exists from Colbert County in the Texas A&M Herbarium (TAMU) as reported in an unpublished master's thesis whose author studied the flora of the Natchez Trace (Phillips 2006).
Not Native
England, J.K. 2018. New to Alabama: Geranium pusillum (Geraniaceae). Phytoneuron 2018-41: 1–4.|||Aedo, C., J.J. Aldasoro and C. Navarro. 1998. Taxonomic Revision of Geranium Sections Batrachioidea and Divaricata (Geraniaceae). Ann. of the Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(4) 594-630.|||Phillips, N.M.M. 2006. Vascular flora and gradient analysis of the Natchez Trace Parkway. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station.
Classification
Citation
<a href=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/587063>Geranium pusillum Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1144. 1759.</a>
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<a href=http://linnean-online.org/7958/>Without data (lectotype: LINN 858.86). Lectotypified by Aedo et al, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: 611. 1998.</a>
Species Distribution Map
Specimens and Distribution
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