| Scientific Name: | Geranium phaeum |
| Common Name: | mourning widow |
| Family Name: | Geraniaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| 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: | Upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Filler, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Spring interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Lobed, Basal, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Pubescent, Ovate, Dentate, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Purple, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, reniform-orbicular, 10-15(-20)cm wide, 5-7 lobed, margin incised, green with maroon blotches mid-blade; flowers 2-2.5cm wide, 5 petals, deep maroon-purple, Jun-Jul. | |