# Need help with a plant ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 6, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-plant-id/756636 "2016-06-06T02:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-plant-id/756636/1 "2016-06-06T02:55:44Z")
Just out doing lawn work, found an interesting plant growing near one of our shrubs. It has a weird flower arrangement, 7 flowers/buds/seeds coming off the end of the stem almost like a skeletal, 7-fingered hand, with a large spike in the center of the flowers/buds. Pictures here: [Image 1](http://imgur.com/7iVUyAm) [Image 2](http://imgur.com/ec02i0R) [Image 3](http://imgur.com/hGH8GCP) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-plant-id/756636/2 "2016-06-06T03:01:28Z")
I’d say some kind of wild geranium (also called cranesbill, because of those things). Not the garden center geranium (which are really pelargoniums) but actual geraniums. And you’re a little late for them to be buds…they’re seedpods. When they’re ripe, the sides of those long beaks will curl upward and release the seeds. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-with-a-plant-id/756636/3 "2016-06-06T03:11:28Z")
Got it in one, nicely done! (ETA: Read that in Fezzik’s voice, and you won’t be able to do it any other way.)