the cranesbill, Geranium sp.
- 1888  (1890)  It grows in luxuriant clumps of fiery red, and is commonly called wild geranium from its flaming red leaves.
- 1958  I could . . . see the beaten footpath, leading gray and dusty between grass and cactus and the little orange flowers of the false mallow that we called wild geranium, until it ended, its purpose served, at the hooked privy door.