Scientific Name: Geranium himalayense (incl. hybrid cvs.)
Common Name: blue hybrid cranesbill, Johnson's Blue geranium
Family Name: Geraniaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Irregular
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Perennial border
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Dissected, Opposite, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Reniform, Palmately lobed
Flowers: Cyme, Blue, Violet, Jun-Jul-Aug
Fruit: Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, lobed to deeply incised, venation palmate; fruit absent on hybrids.