| Scientific Name: | Geranium spp. and/ or cvs. |
| Common Name: | geranium, cranesbill |
| Family Name: | Geraniaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Orbicular, Reniform, Dentate, Incised, Palmately lobed |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Violet, Pink, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, orbicular, most 3-10cm wide, palmately veined, margin lobed, incised, and dentate; flowers with five very similar petals (white, pink-purple, or blue-violet and often with distinctive veining), perianth radially symmetrical (unlike zonal "geraniums"). | |