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Its leaves are pinnately compound and covered in soft, tangled, woolly hairs, giving them a more or less silver-blue color. The exact shape of the leaf and the degree of hairiness can vary substantially between early-season leaves and those produced later in the year. The inflorescences are cymose and usually bear 2-15 flowers.
The leaves go dormant in summer before the fruits ripen. The berries taste a little spicy and sweet. The stem of the plant grows straight up from the ground and divides into a whorl of three pinnately compound leaves with 3 to 7 (most often 5) leaflets arranged on either side of a central stalk.
Geranium maculatum, an Ohio native, is a relative of the common bedding geranium (Pelargonium × hortorum). This list includes plants native and introduced to the state of Ohio, designated (N) and (I), respectively. Varieties and subspecies link to their parent species.
These plants have green, woody, pubescent stems that are either angular or grooved shape. The green colored leaves are ovate-acute or acuminate shaped and are either pinnatipartite or pinnately compound. The surface of the leaves are glabrous, have no hairs, with a wavy leaf margin and contain no stipules.
[7] [5] The compound leaves of this plant appear leaden [6] (the reason for the common name "leadplant" [5]) due to their dense hairiness. The roots can grow up to 5 m (16 ft) deep and can spread up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) radially. [4] This plant can be found growing in well-drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. [6]
Compound leaves may be pinnate with pinnae (leaflets) on both sides of a rachis (axis), or may be palmate with multiple leaflets arising from a single point. [1] Leaf structure is described by several terms that include: Bipinnate leaf anatomy with labels showing alternative usages A ternate compound leaf with a petiole but no rachis (or rachillae)
The leaves are palmately compound with five leaflets 8–16 cm (3– 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and broad. The flowers are produced in panicles in spring, red, yellow to yellow-green, each flower 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long with the stamens longer than the petals (unlike the related yellow buckeye, where the stamens are shorter than the petals).
The leaves are bluish-green and pinnately compound. They are arranged on a petiole, 15 cm (6 in) long, with 6–9 leaflets (or variously up to 15, with 7 opposite and one terminal), each measuring 0.7 to 2.5 cm (1 ⁄ 4 to 1 in). At the base of each pinnate leaf petiole grow two thorns, each about 1 cm (3 ⁄ 8 in) long.