Carolina cranesbill

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Etymology

Calque of taxonomic name Geranium carolinianum.

Noun

Carolina cranesbill (plural Carolina cranesbills)

  1. Any of the small annual flowering shrubs, native to much of the United States, of species Geranium carolinianum.
    Synonym: Carolina geranium
    • 1926, Henry Byron Spotton, A. Cosens, T. J. Ivey, Wild Plants of Canada: A Flora, with Descriptive Key of Families Represented, page 156:
      G. caroliniaʼnum L. (Cᴀʀᴏʟɪɴᴀ Cʀᴀɴᴇsʙɪʟʟ.) Not perennial. Stems usually decumbent, hairy. Sepals awn-pointed, as long as the notched, rose-coloured or whitish petals.

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