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Geranium robertianum L.                             Red Robin

An escaped plant, more or less prostrate about 22 cm high (or long) with leaves 3-5-deeply-lobed, the main segments more or less dissected, light green, thin, ovate-orbicular; peduncles 2-flowered, petals 7-10 mm long, bright crimson; calyx slightly pilose, sepals strongly bristle-tipped; carpels cross rugose, maybe glabrous or puberulent; moist soil, somewhat shady sites, in western Washington and western Oregon.

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