| Scientific Name: | Pelargonium peltatum |
| Common Name: | ivy-leaf geranium |
| Family Name: | Geraniaceae |
| Origin: | Africa |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Hanging basket |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Succulent, Glabrous, Orbicular, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Umbel, White, Violet, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Achene, Schizocarp, Brown, Aug-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Trailing plant; leaves 5-lobed leaf with petiole connected beneath (“peltatum”); florets in a 4cm wide umbel. | |