The tutor shares another yard identification.

I weed the lawn, but only of erect-growing plants: trailing weeds I generally leave. Right now there is an attactive melange of low-growing, weedy plants at the back of the yard; among them is dovefoot geranium.

Dovefoot geranium might be easy to miss. Its pink flowers have petals only a few mm long. There are five, but each one is grooved in half, so the flower appears to have ten petals. The stems are spreading and rather untidy: a long one can branch here and there, the offshoots being different lengths and heading in different directions.

An interesting feature of the dovefoot geranium is that, on the same plant, both fruits and flowers can be present simultaneously. At least, that’s my observation.

Source:

Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon. Plants of Coastal British Columbia. Vancouver:
  BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.

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