Contemporary Circumscription Compared with A Utah Flora 4th ed.

Bio430

Geraniaceae

No differences.

Key Features

Annual or perennial herbs and shrubs with leaves mostly palmately lobed or dissected, less often pinnately compound; stipulate.  Sepals five, free or fused at the base, awned at the tips; petals five, free, often emarginate; stamens 10 or 5 plus 5 staminodes, may be fused at the base; carpels 5, superior, fused into a single pistil with a sterile column that elongates greatly in fruit; fruit a capsule or schizocarp.