Bicknellii: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.   plant annual or biennial; NOT [plant perennial, with rootstocks or caudices] inflorescence loose; NOT [inflorescence compact] fruiting pedicels much longer than the calyx; NOT [fruiting pedicels shorter than to slightly longer than the calyx]  flowers NOT over 12 mm across sepals broadly lanceolate to oblong-ovate; NOT [sepals broadly ovate] sepals bristle-tipped petals scarcely longer than sepals; NOT [petals much longer than sepals] petals 2-8 mm long; NOT [petals 1-2 cm long] beak of mature style column 3-5 mm long; NOT [beak 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 [leaves pinnately lobed or dissected] leaves palmately veined; NOT [leaves pinnately veined] anthers 10; NOT [anthers 5] stylar parts merely recoiled at dehiscence and glabrous within; NOT [stylar parts spirally twisted at dehiscence and bearded within] capsule (mericarp) round; NOT [capsule spindle-shaped]

 

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