Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pelargonium helmsii
Common name
Alpine Stork's-bill
Family
Geraniaceae
Where found
Alpine heath at higher altitudes. Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.25 m high, with a thick fleshy taproot. Stems densely hairy with short simple and glandular hairs or stalkless glands. Leaves opposite each other, 1–4.5 cm long, 10–45 mm wide, kidney-shaped to more or less round, often shallowly lobed, the lobes scalloped, surfaces hairy with short scattered hairs. Flowers with 5 deep pink petals 6–8 mm long, upper petals sometimes with deeper markings, and 4-5 stamens that produce pollen. Sepals 3-5 mm long, tips blunt (but sometimes with a minute point), densely hairy with fine hairs, sticky, sepal spur less than 1 mm long. Flowers in 5–12-flowered compact clusters. Flowering: chiefly summer.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pelargonium~helmsii (accessed 25 January, 2021)
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