Geranium Species, Carolina Cranesbill, Carolina Geranium

A common annual weed here. Not particularly attractive, flowers ornamentally insignificant.

This is not a ground cover.

This plant is invasive in my garden, just like morning glories.

I'm not 100% sure this is the cranesbill that grows wild in my lawn and garden, but it looks very similar. However, the form I have produ...Read Moreces vibrant magenta blooms, (they are very tiny.) The plant habit is rather lanky, (NOT short and bushy like garden cranesbill,) and the foliage has a nice fragrance. It appears to be an annual, as the plants vanish after flowering and setting seed in the spring. It is now October, and although there are tiny seedlings everywhere, I can't find any mature plants. If anyone knows if this ID is incorrect, please let me know.

A hardy geranium, emerging in rosettes in early spring. It flowers by the begining of summer or late spring.

It's often th...Read Moree case that the deeply lobed foliage is more attractive than the insignificant and small cream or pale purple flowers.

It can pop up in the occassional odd place, such as mulch beds but is easily removed so it never really poses a problem as a weed.