| 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, Purple, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, orbicular, 7-10cm wide, 5 main lobes, margin deeply incised; flowers 3-4cm wide, 5 petals, blue-purple, Jun-Aug. | |