Japanese name: アメリカフウロ Scientific name:Geranium carolinianum
[Overview]
An annual 10–60 cm tall, found in vacant lots and along roadsides.
The whole plant is densely covered with soft white hairs.
The stem branches well and is densely covered with white hairs and glandular hairs.
The leaves are 3–4 cm wide, deeply palmately cut, and the segments are further finely divided.
There are long petioles.
Umbels arising from the leaf axils bear 2–6 flowers.
The flowers are pale pink, 5-petaled, and about 2 cm across.
The fruit is a capsule 1.5–2 cm long, which splits into 5 parts and bursts open when ripe.
[History]
It is naturalized in the Pacific islands and Asia.
In Japan, it was discovered in southern Kyoto in 1932 by Makino Tomitaro.
