Species: Geranium carolinianum, Carolina Cranesbill

Family: Verbenaceae (Verbena)

Plant description: Winter annual or biennial, flowers bearing beaked friuts

Habitat: common throughout most of US and s. Canada, gardens, fields, pastures, roadsides

Range: entire USA except Colorado

Bloom Period: March - June

Status: Endangered: New Hampshire; : Threatened: New York; Invasive: Kentucky

Sandy Creek Trail, Durham Co. NC, May 2005

Sandy Creek Trail, Durham Co. NC, May 2005