Geranium dodecatheoides P.J.Alexander & Aedo

A narrow endemic, known only in Three Rivers Canyon in the Sierra Blanca, Lincoln County, New Mexico. Readily distinguished from other Geranium in North America by having nodding flowers with strongly reflexed petals, similar in general appearance to Dodecatheon (hence the specific epithet). Published in 2011: Rhodora 113(955): 252-259.

A flower in Three Rivers Canyon, 20 Jul 2010.

A flower in Three Rivers Canyon, 20 Jul 2010.

Flowering stems in Three Rivers Canyon, 20 Jul 2010.

A cauline leaf in Three Rivers Canyon, 20 Jul 2010.

A flower from which the petals have just fallen, Three Rivers Canyon, 20 Jul 2010.

An immature fruit in Three Rivers Canyon, 20 Jul 2010.

A mature fruit in Three Rivers Canyon, 12 Sep 2010.

A fruit seen from above in Three Rivers Canyon, 12 Sep 2010.

Another fruit in Three Rivers Canyon, 12 Sep 2010.

Habitat in Three Rivers Canyon (there was a population about 20 feet behind me and to the right when I took this picture), Lincoln County, New Mexico, 20 Jul 2010.

Habitat in Three Rivers Canyon, 20 Jul 2010.

Habitat in Three Rivers Canyon (there was a population about 50 feet directly behind me under Pseudotsuga menziesii when I took this photograph), 20 Jul 2010.