Geranium tuberaria - Tuberous Geranium

Tuberous Geranium is a perennial herb 1-2 ft tall, glandular-hairy. It can be identified by its rose-colored stamens and sepals with white margins. Flower-cluster-stalks are 2-flowered. Flowers are large with petals 1.3-1.5 cm long, Petals 13-15 mm long, inverted-heart-shaped to obovate, notched, flat, wedge-shaped, reddish-pink, claw well-developed, fringed with hairs. Sepals are 6.5-8 mm long, ovate, very hairy, awn about 1 mm long, margin white. Stamen filaments are rose-cold red, hairy and fringed with hairs in the upper 2/3 rd, somewhat dilated at the base and barely exceeding sepal length. Flower-stalks are 1.4-2.5 cm long. Bracts are 1-2 mm long; lanceshaped, dense hairy. Rootstock has 1-2 ovoid tubers. Stem is erect, striped, retrorsely velvet-hairy. Leaves are 3-3.5 cm broad, round to somewhat kidney-shaped, palmately cut into 5-7 segments; segments pinnately parted or cut unequally into pointed-blunt lobes, appressed hairy. Stipules are 2 mm long, ovate, somewhat tapering, velvet-hairy; leaf-stalk 1-3 cm long, those of basal leaves up to 2.5 cm long, glandular. Tuberous Geranium is found in Western Himalaya, at altitudes of 2700-3000 m. Flowering: May-June.