Thread: herb or weed?
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Old 01-05-2003, 05:47 PM
Cyndi
 
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Default herb or weed?

Geraniaceae caroliniaum L. (Carolina Geranium).
Diffusely-branched semi-erect winter annual. Stems greenish-pink to red, densely hairy.
Leaves with long petioles, hairy, dissected into variously divided segments, margins blunt toothed.
Flowers pink to purplish with five petals. Fruit a five-parted capsule that forms a "stork's bill" up
to 0.5 inch (1.2 cm) long. Reproduces by seed. Found throughout the continental United States and
Hawaii. Also occurs in Canada, the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, and Australia.
http://www.griffin.peachnet.edu/cssci/TURF/turf.htm has a photo.

Cyndi




"Doctoroe" wrote in message
. com...
It sure looks like an herb, but it has no obvious herbie smell.
Anyone know what it is? Sure is a robust grower, in the herb garden-
of all places:
http://www.farmphoto.com/homestead/m....asp?mid=37908