Geranium maculatum (Wild Geranium)

 This plant has a perennial, horizontal, thick, rough, and knotty root, with many small fibres.  The stems are grayish-green, erect, round, and a foot or two high.  The leaves are spreading and hairy, and the blossoms large, and generally purple, mostly in pairs.  The Dove’s Foot, or Cranebill, which grows in England, is a different plant, bearing many small bright-red flowers of five leaves apiece, though it possesses medicinal properties similar to the American varieties.