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Home  /  Plants  /  Budburst Species  /  Geranium maculatum
Phenology Observation Sheet for Wildflowers and Herbs

COMMON NAME

Wild geranium

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Geranium maculatum

ALSO KNOWN AS

Spotted cranesbill, Wild cranesbill

Plant family

Geranium (Geraniaceae)

Plant group

Wildflowers and Herbs

Wild geranium is an upright wildflower with unbranching stems, usually reaching 1.5 to 2 feet tall and 1 to 1.5 feet wide.
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Identification hints

Leaves arise from the base of the plant instead of the stem (basal) and have leaf stalks up to 12 inch long, while a few smaller, 3-lobed leaves can be found along the stem.
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Wild geranium is pollinated by bees, butterflies, and flies.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Alabama , Arkansas , Connecticut , District of Columbia , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Iowa , Illinois , Indiana , Kansas , Kentucky , Louisiana , Massachusetts , Maryland , Maine , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Mississippi , North Carolina , North Dakota , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New York , Ohio , Oklahoma , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina , South Dakota , Tennessee , Virginia , Vermont , Wisconsin , West Virginia
HABITAT
Wild geranium is a typical wildflower of woodlands, savannas, and semi wooded meadows.
ATTRIBUTES
Leaves
Leaves are palmately lobed with 5 to 7 deeply divided lobes. The leaf margins have some smaller lobes and deep teeth.
Flowers
Wild geranium have clusters of 2 to 5 flowers at the top of the stems. Flowers have 5 rounded petals that are lavender to pink streaked with darker veins. It has 10 stamens with yellow to brown tips.
Fruits
Fruit is a capsule with 5 chambers, which spring open when ripe. Each chamber has one seed which is attached to the central column of the capsule by a long slender stalk. This unusual fruit structure is how Geranium gets its common name, cranesbill.
Bloom Time
Blooming late spring to early summer.

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