Scientific Name: Geranium macrorrhizum 'Ingwersen's Variety'
Common Name: Ingwersen's Variety bigroot geranium
Family Name: Geraniaceae
Origin: Central / west Asia, Europe, Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial, Semi-evergreen
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Spreading
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Fragrance, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Spring interest, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Orbicular, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Cyme, Pink, May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Schizocarp, Brown, Jul
Key ID Features:
Spreading groundcover with tickened roots and a condensed stem; leaves opposite, orbicular, most 8-12cm wide, (5-)7 lobes, dentate margins, bright green, red-orange in fall, strongly aromatic when crushed; flowers 2-2.5cm wide, 5 petals, pink-purple, May-July.