| Scientific Name: | Pelargonium spp. |
| Common Name: | geranium |
| Family Name: | Geraniaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| 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, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Achene, Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Locally grown as bedding or container plants, most 20-40 tall, stems succulent or swollen; leaves alternate, most simple and lobed, petiole long; inflorescence umbel-like, most 10-15cm wide, flowers bilaterally symmetrical, 2.5-5(-6)cm wide, with 10 stamens, 5 sepals, and 5 petals (the 2 upper ones larger then the tree lower ones). | |