Geranium solanderi var. solanderi

Decumbent to ascending perennial; stems to 50 cm long, with short spreading or recurved hairs and long (sometimes deciduous) patent to slightly recurved and/or crisped hairs; taproot c. spherical to napiform. Leaves orbicular to reniform, to 6 cm long; palmatisect with 5–7 deeply 2- or 3-fid primary lobes, often further dissected, ultimate lobes obtuse to subacute, upper surface glabrescent, or with scattered, curved hairs, lower surface with sparse, long, spreading hairs; stipules triangular to narrow-ovate, short-acuminate or often short-laciniate. Flowers solitary or paired; peduncles 0.7–2.5 cm long, pedicels 0.6–2.5 cm long; sepals ovate to narrow-elliptic, 4–5.5 mm long, (sub)acute, pubescent with minute, glandular and eglandular hairs, and longer spreading hairs, margins occasionally translucent, mucro 0.5–0.9 mm long; petals obovate, 5–7.5 mm long, c. truncate to retuse, bright pink; anthers pink to lemon with purple dehiscence lines. Fruits 1.2–1.5 cm long; mericarps unevenly pubescent, hairs becoming longer toward awn, suture margins irregularly short-ciliate; seed rugose with large isodiametric alveolae with occasional membranous deposits.  Flowers Oct.–Jan.