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Hello and welcome to my blog of plants! You'll find a list of herbaceous plants that I've encountered and learned about during my studies at Virginia Tech, in the order I learned them by list. You'll find great photos of herbaceous plants, their names and families, and details of where I found them. All photos have been taken by myself. Feel free to click on them for enlargement. May this blog be of benefit to thee!

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Geranium macrorrhizum, Bigroot Geranium, Geraniaceae

Genus and species:  
Geranium macrorrhizum
Common Name: Bigroot Geranium
Family Name: Geraniaceae

This plant likes part shade to full sun. It has very pungent foliage, a common flower with five petal, always with a bulge in the back where the ovary is. It gets to be about 6" tall and spreads by sending out large micro-rhizomes.


Photos taken March 28, 2012 at Virginia Tech in the Hahn Horticulture Gardens.



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