Scientific Name: Geranium x oxonianum
Common Name: pink cranesbill
Family Name: Geraniaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Open, Spreading
Form: Creeping / Mat-like, Oval - horizontal
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Filler, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Spring interest, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Basal, Palmate venation, Pubescent, Ovate, Pinnately lobed, Serrate
Flowers: Flowers solitary, Pink, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct-Nov
Fruit: Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal or opposite on flowering stems, orbicular, palmately lobed, margin incised and dentate, pubescent, may have zonal markings; flowers 3-4cm wide, cup-shaped, 5 pink petals (white and purple cvs.), veins darker.