Wild Geranium Poster
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$14.51
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PosterHeavy poster paper, semigloss finish
$14.51
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Product features
- Printed on poster paper. Extremely versatile, making it perfect for reproducing both artwork and photographs
- Custom sizes, based on artwork dimensions. Check size chart if self-framing
- Dimensions include a 1 - 2 inch (2.5 - 5.0cm) white border to assist in framing
- Shipped in protective packaging
- Since every item is made just for you by your local third-party fulfiller, there may be slight variances in the product received
Wild Geranium
I'm always excited to see wild geranium, something about the color and hue of the petals that just seems more complex than most wildflowers. Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) is a perennial plant is 1-2½' tall, consisting of a loose cluster of basal leaves and flowering stems that develop directly from the creeping rootstock. On the lower portion of each flowering stem, there is a pair of opposite leaves. Both the basal leaves and the lower opposite leaves of the flowering stems have a similar appearance. They are up to 5" long and across, and palmately cleft with 5 deep lobes. Each of these lobes is wedge-shaped at the base. The leaf margins have a few secondary lobes and coarse teeth. Each leaf has long petioles with coarse white hairs, while its upper surface has fine white hairs. The flowering stems are covered with coarse white hairs and more or less erect. The upper pairs of leaves on the flowering stems are like the lower leaves, except they are smaller in size and usually have only 3 primary lobes. The stems terminate in a corymb or floppy umbel of 1-5 flowers. Each flower is about 1–1½" across, consisting of 5 rounded petals, 5 green sepals, 10 stamens with pale yellow anthers, and a single pistil with 5 carpels. The petals are pale purplish pink and have fine lines running across their surface that function as nectar guides. Both the flowering stalk (peduncle) and pedicels have non-glandular hairs. The blooming period occurs during the late spring to early summer and lasts about a month. The pistil of the flower elongates into a beak-like fruit about 1–1½" long. As it matures, the 5 slender carpels of this fruit curl upward and backward to fling the seeds from the mother plant. Each of these small seeds has a reticulated surface. The root system consists of a dark stout rootstock that produces rhizomes. It is high in tannins. This plant often forms colonies. Shenks Ferry is an amazing place, at least 73 species of flowers bloom from mid-March until the end of May. More than 60 other species of flowers bloom during the summer and fall.* Best viewed large in a color managed browser such as Firefox or Safari. Canon 5D Voigtländer SL Macro APO-Lanthar 125mm 1/800 @ f/5.6 (ISO 400) Single RAW capture converted through DxO Taken 5/15/11 at Shenks Ferry Wildflower Preserve near Pequea Pennsylvania Plant description taken from excerpts of Illinois wildflower website.
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