Geranium brevicaule

Rosetted perennial, 5–10 cm high; stems absent or very short, not exceeding leaves, covered with short, retrorse, closely appressed hairs and scattered longer spreading hairs; taproot fleshy or woody. Leaves c. orbicular to reniform, 1–2.8 cm long, palmatifid to palmatisect with 5–7, broad, trilobed, often toothed, primary lobes; ultimate lobes acute; upper surface with sparse straight hairs particularly along veins and near margin; stipules broad elliptic to ovate, short-acuminate. Flowers solitary; peduncles 0–0.4 cm long; pedicels to 1.2 cm long; sepals narrow ovate to oblanceolate, 5–6 mm long, acute, hirsute, mucro to 1–1.5 mm long; petals oblanceolate, 4.5–5 mm long, obtuse, red or crimson; anthers yellow with fine blue dehiscence lines. Fruits 10–13 mm long; mericarps sparsely pubescent, suture margins not ciliate; seed dark brown, smooth with minute shallow elongate alveolae.  Flowers Dec.–Apr.