| Scientific Name: | Pelargonium x hortorum |
| Common Name: | zonal geranium, bedding geranium, hybrid geranium |
| Family Name: | Geraniaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Hanging basket, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Palmate venation, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Orbicular, Crenate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Umbel, White, Orange, Violet, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Annual bedding plant with mildly fuzzy highly branched stems 30-50cm tall; leaves alternate, orbicular, most blades 8-12cm wide, may be "zoned" with a dark bronzed band, palmate venation, margins 3-5 lobed and crenate, base cupped and cordate, petiole ; inflorescence of various colours in umbels with 5 petals per floret. | |