Wildflower Id Help (1 Viewer)

I'm just starting to learn some of the wildflowers and this one has me stuck. I guess I'd better get a field guide asap. I took the pictures in southern Ontario at the beginning of June. The small book that I have on my local wildflowers doesn't show Ontario flowers. This one was growing in woodland that were fairly dry. In second picture there are two different leaves shown and I think that the lower growing ones may be the actually leaves of this plant, not the more obvious ones. I should have investigated more caefully.

snowyowl said:

I'm just starting to learn some of the wildflowers and this one has me stuck. I guess I'd better get a field guide asap. I took the pictures in southern Ontario at the beginning of June. The small book that I have on my local wildflowers doesn't show Ontario flowers. This one was growing in woodland that were fairly dry. In second picture there are two different leaves shown and I think that the lower growing ones may be the actually leaves of this plant, not the more obvious ones. I should have investigated more caefully.

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Being British, with my only experience of the North American flora being confined to New York State, I ought to keep out of this.

However, I can say this is definitely a Cranesbill (Geranium) and such books as I have point strongly to it being Spotted Cranesbill (aka Wild Geranium) - Geranium maculatum.

Pretty well all the leaves in your photo (other than the violet (?) leaves) are Geranium leaves, some basal, some stem leaves, and I think you can assume all belong to your plant.
There might be other species my books don't tell me about, but with some experience of the characters of our British perennial species, I feel that your photo matches G. maculatum extremely well.

A quick Google search brings up a lot of photos, some with broader petals and some as garden forms, but many looking exactly like your plant.

Don't ask me where the spots are.

Alan

field guide is out in the car but I think it's bloodwort.

Silver is right, Wild Geranium

Thanks, guys. With the names that you have suggested I can easily find pictures etc for comparison.