| 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 thickened 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. | |