| Scientific Name: | Pelargonium graveolens |
| Common Name: | rose geranium, citronella geranium |
| Family Name: | Geraniaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Dried flower or fruit, Fragrance |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Dissected, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Ovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Umbel, White, Purple, Pink, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Achene, Schizocarp, Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, most ovate, 5-8cm long x 2-10cm wide, palmately veined with deep irregular lobes >3mm wide, margin wavy or crenate, frilly, pubescent, soft and velvety, velvety, and strongly rose-lemon scented when crushed, petioles <8cm long; umbels rounded, 5-8cm wide, each with 5-10 flowers, 1.5-2cm wide, 5 petals, with the upper two being larger and more prominently darkly marked, pale pink to almost white, peduncles 15-40 mm long, Aug-Oct. | |