Bicknellii: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.   plant annual or biennial; NOT [perennial, with rootstocks or caudices] inflorescence loose; NOT compact stalks of individual flowers more than twice as long as calyx (Budd's Flora, see notes above) fruiting pedicels much longer than the calyx; NOT [shorter than to slightly longer than the calyx] (Flora of Alberta, see notes above) flowers NOT over 12 mm across sepals broadly lanceolate to oblong-ovate; NOT broadly ovate sepals bristle-tipped petals scarcely longer than sepals; NOT much longer than sepals petals 2-8 mm long; NOT 1-2 cm long beak of mature style column 3-5 mm long; NOT 1-1.5 mm long seeds rough; NOT smooth

 

Geranium: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. leaves palmately lobed or divided; NOT [pinnately lobed or dissected] leaves palmately veined; NOT pinnately veined anthers 10; NOT 5 stylar parts merely recoiled at dehiscence and glabrous within; NOT [spirally twisted at dehiscence and bearded within] tails of capsules (mericarps) merely curved; NOT twisted at maturity  capsule (mericarp) round; NOT spindle-shaped

 

Geraniaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family. herbs; NOT shrubs, NOT trees plants terrestrial or semiaquatic; plants NOT aquatic, leaves NOT submerged, leaves NOT floating plants NOT with colored milky juice plants with more than one normal leaf some or all leaves alternate; leaves NOT [opposite, whorled, or basal] (See notes above.) leaves with stipules leaves palmately divided; NOT of 3 leaflets flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others flowers regular in shape calyx regular stamens usually separate or partly so; NOT in a column stamens 5 or 10; stamens NOT [usually numerous] ovary of 5 united carpels; ovary NOT [of one or more carpels, either separate or enclosed by a fleshy receptacle fruit with a long beak